A Dublin ghost story: Headless wanderers

A short story in (simplified) Dublin dialect, related by the author, Turlough Conmee. This is one of "Thirteen Tales Told by a Dubliner", a collection of 13 stories of the supernatural. They are all "true": they stem either from the author's experience, or from tales told by his father and mother, Dublin folklore, or Irish history.
Headless wanderers
This story concerns several headless ghosts, and the hazards of various modes of transport. Even the ghosts are not sure who is who, and haunt each other through the centuries. Among them are Robert Emmet, the revolutionary patriot, Lord Norbury the hanging judge, Donnbo the minstrel, and the otherwise unsung Felix Brothers, who lost his head to a tram in the early 20th century.
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Photo: Giuseppe Milo, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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[@simonward-horner7605]

Thanks! Most enjoyable.

[@lorihogue5015]

Great story. My 3rd great grandfather was Cornelius O'Caughlan (born 1778 in Cork), coadjutor of Robert Emmett, Patriot of 1803 Irish Rebellion. Cornelius was arrested with Robert and imprisoned in Dublin Castle for a year.

[@dflt5th]

This is a fitting end for Norbury. I'd like to think this is how he spends the hereafter.

[@tystephens5190]

Very entertaining which I enjoy!

[@dublindialect3168]

This is a revised version of the story I published here a year ago. It now contains the all-important element of music! I do hope you all enjoy it.

[@darragh364]

I'm gonna go up at night and see can I find this ghost

[@dublindialect3168]

Well, for all I know, he may be still there.

[@dublindialect3168]

But actually, there's too much traffic on the roads out there now for headless apparitions.

[@sleethmitchell]

the music is good. not necessary, but good...hearing 'by' pronounced, 'bee' makes me wonder if the word, BEE-sides is actually 'by sides'. does make more sense...

[@dublindialect3168]

Whew! I had to look up the OED. It says essentially what you say. "By the side of (that)" was a way of saying "in addition".
As for the music, I think I was fortunate to find it. I decided to use a signature tune for these stories, because decades of radio have taught us to expect a musical intro to set the mood and close the story. I was following the example of Jasper L'Estrange, who has a very macabre signature tune for his channel @EnCryptedClassicHorror.