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Sinister SunriseEpisode 151: UAP Hearings - Capital S Serious
It's episode 151 and the Sinister Sisters wonder if the alien race has their own version of HR? If you couldn’t already tell, this is going to be a wild ride. In today’s episode, resident alien enthusiast Sarah covers the recent UAP hearings and unveils everything the government may be hiding from the public. Three testifiers recount their personal UAP sightings and claim the government has access to not only downed unidentified crafts, but also may be in possession of nonhuman biologics. Just like an onion, there are layers.
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2023-09-221h 07
PhenomnáNinette de Valois the doyenne of balletThis week I am joined by Andrea Bolger who is talking about Ninette de Valois who was born in Wicklow (under a different but also unusual name) and went on to found the Royal Ballet Company. Listen to learn all about Ninette and her amazing achievements and also to learn how my Mother and definitely not my lack of talent prevented me from becoming a ballerina....
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2020-12-2030 minPhenomnáLizzie Halliday the Serial Killer Part 2This week Morgan finishes our two part episode on Lizzie Halliday. Listen in to hear about how things finally caught up with Lizzie, her trial and ultimate demise
Notes/ References
Kevin Owens: Killing Time in the Catskills: The twisted tale of the Catskill Ripper Elizabeth "Lizzie" McNally Halliday (2019)
Marian Broderick: Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History (2012)
2020-12-0750 minPhenomnáLizzie Halliday the Serial Killer Part 1This week we're joined by writer Morgan Ormonde for the fist in our two part episode on Lizzie Halliday. Lizzie was a 19th Century arsonist, bigamist, committer of grant theft horse (which is apparently a thing) and serial killer. Listen to hear all about her path of destruction.
Notes/ References
Kevin Owens: Killing Time in the Catskills: The twisted tale of the Catskill Ripper Elizabeth "Lizzie" McNally Halliday (2019)
Marian Broderick: Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History (2012)
2020-11-2200 minPhenomnáMaeve Brennan the voice of New YorkThis week, guest Mairead Kiernan shares the tale of Maeve Brennan. Maeve was a glamourous and troubled writer who wrote for the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. A combination of Carrie Bradshaw, Nora Ephron and Grey Gardens, Maeve has seen a recent resurgence of popularity in Irish literary circles. Listen to this week's episode to find out more.
Notes/ References
Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker; Angela Bourke, 2016;
The Visitor; Maeve Brennan, 2001 published by New Island Press;
Yvonnejerrold.com: Robert Brennan 1881...
2020-11-0900 minPhenomnáBridget Cleary the Fairy ChangelingWe're starting Season Two with a bang as we tell the story of Bridget Cleary who was burned as a fairy changeling in 1895. Turns out we weren't too fond of fairies back in the day. Listen in to hear what led to Bridget's unfortunate demise.
Guest co-presenter: Mairead Kiernan
Music:
Maija Sofia: The wife of Michael Cleary
Notes/ References/ Further Reading:
Amazon Lore: Black Stockings, 2017;
Dictionary of Irish Biography: Cleary, Bridget, Angela Bourke.;
Angela Bourke, The burning of Bridget Cleary: a...
2020-10-2600 minPhenomnáKit Cavanagh the soldierKit Cavanagh was a bar owner in Dublin whose husband went out to pay a bill and never came home. A year later, she learned that he had been enlisted in the army so she did what any self respecting wife and mother of three would do.... she dressed up as a man, joined the army and went to try bring him home. Listen to this weeks episode for the rest of her adventure.
Notes/ References
Wild Irish Women Extraordinary Lives from History by Marion Broderick,
https://www.pbfa.org...
2020-07-0129 minPhenomnáTeresa Deevy the overlooked Abbey playwrightTeresa Deevy was a prolific playwright for the Abbey in the 1930s before going on to write for radio and television in Ireland and the UK. She also happened to turn deaf a decade before radio appeared in Ireland meaning she never heard any of her works performed. Listen to this week's episode to find out more about her "deevious" ways. I accept that is a terrible pun but it's here now and there's nothing you can do about it....
Notes/ References:
“The Abbey Dramatists: 1926–1945.” After the Irish Renaissance: A Critical History of the Irish...
2020-06-1726 minPhenomnáMother Jones, the most dangerous woman in AmericaAfter tragically losing all of her children to yellow fever, Cork woman Mary Harris became the mother of a movement. She mobilized tens of thousands of workers all over the US to strike, unionize and fight against harsh working conditions, labor exploitation, inequality and class warfare.
Persistent in her mission to unite workers of all races, men, women and children, her home became "anywhere there is a fight". The name 'Mother Jones' brought fear and dread to the wealthy land owners as she became known as 'the most dangerous woman in America'. Hear the full story...
2020-06-0937 minPhenomnáZandra Mitchell- Ireland's first professional saxophone playerZandra Mitchell led the type of life that doesn't seem real. She left Ireland at a young age and toured all around the globe as a jazz musician. She shared the stage with jazz legends and lived the interwar jazz lifestyle. She was also one of only forty Irish citizens in Germany for World War Two. Life is a cabaret old chum, so put on your pearls, pour your whiskey and come learn about Zandra's extraordinary life.
Notes/ References
https://www.herstory.ie/news/2019/8/29/zandra-jospehine-alexandra-mitchell
https://presspack.rte...
2020-05-2629 minPhenomnáLizzie Le Blond, MountaineerThis week Shaunna tells us all about Lizzie LeBlond who left a luxurious life in Greystones to become one of the world's first female mountaineers. She traveled to great heights especially considering that she didn't even know how to put on her own boots when she set out. Reese Witherspoon eat your heart out
Notes/ Further Reading:
County Wicklow Heritage: A Wicklow Woman's War
Women's Museum of Ireland: Elizabeth Lizzie LeBlond
Irish Times: Greystones woman climbed mountains in a skirt so not to offend
2020-05-1930 minPhenomná"Typhoid Mary" Mallon the unfortunate cookThis week we uncover the story of "Typhoid Mary" the unfortunate Irish cook whose name has become synonymous with disease and pestilence. More than just a pop culture reference, listen now to hear her full story.
Notes/ References
Dictionary Of Irish Biography: Mallon, Mary (‘Typhoid Mary’)
“Controlling Typhoid Mary.” Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness, by Trevor Hopppe, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2018, pp. 17–42.
Chan, Kit Yee, and Daniel D. Reidpath. “‘Typhoid Mary’ and ‘HIV Jane’: Responsibility, Agency and Disease Prevention.” Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 11, no...
2020-05-1231 minPhenomnáGrace O'Malley the pirate queenTo Hell, to Connacht or to the high seas. This week we dissect the folklore from fiction as we discuss the life of legendary pirate Queen of Connacht, Granuaile in part two of our pirate special. *Correction: In this episode Shaunna mistakenly says Grace O'Malley lives until the age of 93 when in fact she lived to 73, (which is still pretty astonishing considering the life she lived).
Notes/ references
Grace O Malley, The Biography of Ireland’s Pirate Queen 1520-1603- Anne Chambers, Gill Books
http://www.graceomalley.com
https://ww...
2020-05-0533 minPhenomnáAnne Bonny the lesser known Irish pirateWe have cabin fever so this week we are kicking off our two part pirate special with Anne Bonny, the lesser known Irish pirate. Forced to leave Kinsale at a young age due to questionable parentage, Anne ending up carousing around the Caribbean with her paramour Calico Jack and a crew of unscrupulous pirates. She captured public imagination as a hard living, violent pirate and a woman no less. Tune in to hear the blood curdling legends and more than a few pirate puns... it's been a long quarantine. Help!
References/ Further Reading
Clip from Muppet Treasure Island, Jim Henson Pr...
2020-04-2825 minPhenomnáMargaret Cousins the international suffragetteThis week Shaunna tells us about Margaret Cousins a hippy with an iron core. Margaret graduated from smashing windows in Dublin to fighting for women's rights in India, with some mystical detours along the way.
Notes/ Further Reading
Women's Museum of Ireland: Margaret Elizabeth Cousins
RTE: Global Lives: Margaret Cousins
Ireland XO: Margaret (née Gillespie) Cousins 1878
The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule By Kumari Jayawardena
Internet Archive: The awakening of Asian womanhood
2020-04-2232 minPhenomnáKathleen Lynn the revolutionary doctorThis week Maria and Shaunna come to you from lock down to talk about Kathleen Lynn your newest feminist icon. Dr Lynn was one of the first female doctors in Ireland, a revolutionary who was active in the 1916 Rising and War of Independence and who also founded her own hospital. Maria also gets to talk about syphilis again. It always comes back to syphilis...
We may be going a bit mad from the lockdown.
To view the Loopline documentary go to: https://ifiplayer.ie/kathleen-lynn-the-rebel-doctor/
Notes/ References
UCD: Dr Kathleen Lynn (1874 – 1955)
RCPI: Kathleen Lynn Diaries Collection
Loopline: KATHLEEN LYNN – THE REBEL...
2020-04-1428 minPhenomnáLola Montez- dancer, seducer and wild childThis week Shaunna looks at Lola Montez who we have decided is the 19th Century Cardi B. Lola was a wild child who traveled more than all of your Tinder matches combined, was an early burlesque dancer and almost toppled a monarch. Expect terrible pop culture references, plenty of Buffy and learn which disease Maria is obsessed with this week (hint: it predates the coronavirus and your favourite historical figure probably had it)
Notes/ further reading:
https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/lola-montez-the-spider-woman-part-1/
https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/lola-montez-the-spider-woman-part-2/
Irish History Podcast: https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/montez/
Wikipedia: https://en.wi...
2020-03-3140 minPhenomnáMary Anthony O'Connell the angel of the battlefieldWe accidentally picked a health themed episode before all of the coronavirus stuff started to really kick off. Prescient? Maybe. This week's episode is about nun and nurse Sister Anthony O'Connell AKA the Florence Nightingale of the Civil War AKA the Angel of the Battlefield. Self isolate with us and learn about this badass woman who embedded with the Union Army during the American Civil War
Notes/ References
Limerick’s Life: WHO WAS MARY O’CONNELL? AN ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD, Sharon Slater.
Angels of the Battlefield, George Barton
Sister Anthony O'Connell: Angel of the Orphan, the Sick, the Wounded, and th...
2020-03-1746 minPhenomnáEliza Lynch the heroine of ParaguayIn this episode Shaunna tells us the fascinating story of Eliza Lynch who left famine struck Ireland as a child and went on to become the Heroine of Paraguay.
Notes/ References
History Ireland
Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850, James Dunkerly
Wikipedia
2020-03-1028 minPhenomnáMary MacSwiney Ireland's last true republicanOften overshadowed by Countess Markievicz, Cork woman via England, Mary MacSwiney was a revolutionary who was considered to be Ireland's last true Republican. This week we talk about her contribution to the Irish Republican cause and subsequent potted legacy
Notes/ References
Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Irish Biography, Mary MacSwiney by Brian Murphy
Ordinary Women in Extraordinary Times: Eleven Cork Women in the Revolutionary Years 1916-1923 by Shandon Area History Group
Ireland’s Suffragettes by Sarah Beth Watkins
Oireachtas Debates December 1921
Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History by Marian Broderick
2020-03-0430 minPhenomnáMary Swanzy artist extraordinareThis week we look at artist Mary Swanzy. Mary was a contemporary of Picasso, one of Ireland's first cubist painters and fond of the odd snarky quip
Notes/ References:
Irish Examiner: Irish artist Mary Swanzy was a woman of many styles
Crawford Art Gallery: Mary Swanzy
Irish Times: Mary Swanzy: From strait-laced girl to first Irish cubist
Irish Times: Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
Visual Arts Cork: Mary Swanzy
2020-02-2132 minPhenomnáPetronella de Meath the first Irish "witch" burnt at the stakeIn episode two we're looking at Petronella De Meath, the first woman to be burnt at the stake in Ireland for witchcraft. This is despite the fact that witchcraft was not yet a crime in Ireland.
Sources/ Further Reading
Historic Kilkenny: Petronella De Meath
RAI Dictionary of Irish Biography: Alice Kytler
The Journal: Alice Kytler Witch of Kilkenny
Review Reviewed Work(s): The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish: Vengeance and Heresy in Medieval Ireland by Maeve Brigid Callan Review by: Yvonne Seale Source: Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies , Vol. 9 (2016), pp. 97-99 Published...
2020-02-1422 minPhenomnáFlorence Newton the witch of YoughalIn episode one we're looking at Florence Newton, the Witch of Youghal. Her arrest and subsequent witch trial in the 17th century is considered one of the best examples of an Irish witch trial.
Sources/ Further Reading
Seymour, S. J. D. (1913). Irish witchcraft and demonology. Ireland:
Irish Examiner: Florence Newton - the woman at the centre of one of Ireland’s greatest witch trials
CRY104FM Community Radio Youghal: Vagabones by Raymond Deane
Buzzfeed: How witchcraft became a brand
Celtic Druid: Florence Newton. The Witch of Youghal 1661.
Irish Times: Witchipedia: Ireland’s most famous witches
2020-02-0725 min
Girly House Session - Capital HouseCapital House n°0601. El Hechizo - Alex Niggerman
02. The Way Back (Random soul mix) - Evolve feat Margo Remundo
03. 99&Half (New Funk remix) - Soul Dynamic feat Susu Dobbie
04. Attica - André Crom feat Lucca Debbie
05. Check it out (Original mix) - Audio Jacker
06. You are the one for me (Original mix) - Roberto De Carlo feat Colin Corvez
07. Get the funk - Denis Naidanow
08. Reason or passion (Giano remix) - Biboulakis
09. Groover"s delight (Original mix) - Dr Kucho
10. War - David Herrero
11. Funk Phenomna 2010 (Starskiller remix) - Armand Van Helden
12. L...
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