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George "Fighting" Fitzgerald and the Wild West of Ireland

George "Fighting" Fitzgerald and the Wild West of Ireland

Profiles In Eccentricity

August 29, 20201h 32mExplicit

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This week Johnboy tells the lads about an 18th century society boy who upended the standards of his noble status by endlessly engaging in pistol duels, grudges, intimidation via his pet bear, gang wars and other debauchery in his native west of Ireland and elsewhere in Europe. Was it his brain injury from an early duel, boredom and affluence or innate madness that drove George Robert Fitzgerald to his bitter end?