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On this episode, Dan travels back to the auld sod to regale Alana with the story of a vicious crime lord with two wives and a weakness for desserts: Martin "The General" Cahill. A product of the Dublin slums and upwardly mobile gangster, Cahill’s rise and fall is a dark reflection of Ireland’s own turbulent history.
Sources:
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole
The General and Evil Empire: The Irish Mob and the Execution of Journalist Veronica Guerin by Paul Williams
A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney
Newspapers and Magazines: Hot Press, Dublin Evening Herald, Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, The Star (Dublin).
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Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson
Produced by Julia Murray
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