A service of atonement to acknowledge that the killing of a woman who was burned at the stake in Kilkenny during the medieval witch trials was wrong will be held at St Canice’s Cathedral tomorrow. The service will mark the end of the Toil and Trouble Festival, which examined Kilkenny’s historical connection to witchcraft and […]
THE award-winning author of ‘The Herbalist’, Niamh Boyce, has written a historical fiction about the Kilkenny Witch Trials and Alice Kytler. Based in Kilkenny in 1324, ‘Her Kind’ is inspired by the real life story of Alice Kytler, but is a re-imagining of the story through the eyes of her maidservant Petronella, who would later […]
THE local legend of Alice Kyteler is about to become immortalised in a new book. Alice was a beautiful 14th century noblewoman from Kilkenny who inherited a huge fortune from her three former husbands. The speed with which her spouses became ex-spouses aroused suspicion and when her fourth husband suddenly fell ill and died she […]