Curtis, Maurice
9781739374648
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