Murder and the Hellfire Club

A nobleman’s drunken murder. A trial before the Irish House of Lords. And the scandal that gave rise to Ireland’s most infamous secret society — the Hellfire Club.Source Material  Neal Garnham, “The Trials of James Cotter and Henry, Baron Barry of Santry: Two Case Studies in the Administrationof Criminal Justice in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland”, IrishHistorical Studies, Vol. 32, No. 128 (2001).Neal Garnham, “The Trials of James Cotter and Henry, Baron Barry of Santry”, Irish Historical Studies, 2001.F. Elrington Ball, The Judges in Ireland, 1221–1921 (London: John Murray, 1926).Geoffrey Ashe, The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality (The History Press, 2000).Evelyn Lord, TheHellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (Yale University Press, 2008).Hellfire Clubs (Pamphlet / Irish National Library Collection, c. 18th century).Abarta Heritage, TheHellfire Club Archaeological Project – History and Folklore, Abarta Heritage (https://www.abartaheritage.ie/hellfire-club-archaeological-project/hellfire-club-history/hellfire-club/).John D’Alton, Historyof the County of Dublin (Dublin, 1838). “The Hell-Fire Club: Sex, Satanism andSecret Societies,” History Is Now Magazine, 2018.“The Hellfire Club Murders”, Dublin Penny Journal, archival reprint.