# S7,E2: Abhartach, Ireland's First Vampire

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Podcast: [Shadow Carriers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/shadow-carriers-1374688)
Published: 2026-05-01T13:49:50+00:00
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## Resource

Before Dracula stalked the pages of Bram Stoker's imagination, a blood-drinking warlord was already terrorizing a 5th-century Irish village. What happens when an entire village faces something that cannot be killed?

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