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The Hellfire Club : Dublin's Dance with the Devil

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ISBN: 9781739374648
AuthorCurtis, Maurice
Pub Date01/07/2023
BindingHardback
CountryIRL
Dewey941.83
Publisher: Old Dublin Press
Quick overview This book is the story of this infamous club and its origins in an area of Dublin called HELL, during Dublin’s Golden Age. For it was in HELL that the club’s aristocratic founders first met to establish the club. We will discover the many outrageous personalities such as Pimping Peg, the Sham Squire, the ‘Speaker’ Conolly, Buck Whaley, Laetitia Pilkington, Darkey Kelly and the ‘King of Hell’ – all of whom feature in the story of the Hellfire Club. We will hear of tales of the crypt, the Forty Steps to Hell, bawds, bagnios and brothels, the statue to the Devil, as well as the Devil’s snuff box
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The old ruined, sinister, Hellfire Club, hauntingly located on Montpelier Hill in the Dublin Mountains, has long been a source of wonderment, not least because of the many tales of terror. From its position, one has an unparalleled view of the city of Dublin and the surrounding hills, woods, forests, as well as the treacherous and winding roads in its vicinity.

Current lore insists that the Devil himself made a brief appearance here. In fact, there have been many tales of deals with the Devil, Satanism, orgies, and human sacrifice. For it was to here that members of the notorious and mysterious Hellfire Club escaped to dance, carouse, gamble, shoot, and engage excessively in eating, drinking, debauchery, whoring and murder.

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The old ruined, sinister, Hellfire Club, hauntingly located on Montpelier Hill in the Dublin Mountains, has long been a source of wonderment, not least because of the many tales of terror. From its position, one has an unparalleled view of the city of Dublin and the surrounding hills, woods, forests, as well as the treacherous and winding roads in its vicinity.

Current lore insists that the Devil himself made a brief appearance here. In fact, there have been many tales of deals with the Devil, Satanism, orgies, and human sacrifice. For it was to here that members of the notorious and mysterious Hellfire Club escaped to dance, carouse, gamble, shoot, and engage excessively in eating, drinking, debauchery, whoring and murder.

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