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Step into the shadowed corridors of Ireland’s past, where real crimes echo through the years and history bleeds into the present—this is the world of Pat Doran, a writer who brings true events, forgotten voices, and unsettling truths vividly to life.

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Pat Doran is an Irish historian and true crime writer, renowned for rigorous archival research and compelling narratives that illuminate Ireland’s legal past.

Book cover of "The Bantry Murder" by Pat Doran, featuring a silhouetted figure at a window in a moody, atmospheric black-and-white style.
Book cover of "Lady Killers" by Pat Doran, featuring a dark, moody portrait of a woman with the subtitle "The Crimes and Trials of Eleven Women Sentenced to Death in Ireland".
Book cover of "Tales from the Courts West Cork 1900" by Pat Doran, featuring a red background with legal symbols including a gavel, scales of justice, and open law books.

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  • Footprints in the Potato Field

    Culleeny More Townland Daniel Sullivan and his wife Margaret farmed fifty acres in Culleeny More, which is located approximately halfway between Killarney and Killorglin in…

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  • The Servant Girl

    Early on the morning of Tuesday the 8th of December 1914, Rosa di Lucia was found dead on the floor of her bedroom above the…

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  • Deadly Daughters

    Sarah Anne Pearson Alice Pearson, who was in her mid-seventies, died on the 27th of June 1904 in the village of Richhill County Armagh. Her…

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