Fin Dwyer
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2,951 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Fin Dwyer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think the most likely long term trajectory is that they no longer exist.
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Regardless of who stole them, the easiest way to sell the royal jewels
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would have been to break them down into their constituent diamonds and gemstones, this would have dramatically reduced their value
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But made it much more difficult to track down.
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If this is the case, maybe you right now have a diamond ring or something like that that actually has one of the original Irish crown jewels set in it.
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However, given the nature of the case and the fact that it's never been solved, there is always constant rumors that they are in existence and are about to be found.
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In the 1920s, for example, a French dealer offered the Irish Crown jewels to the Irish Free State for a few thousand pounds.
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The government in Dublin were actually willing to buy them, but nothing came of it.
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Then in the 1980s, the Irish Guardi received information that Irish Republicans had actually taken them way back in 1907 and actually buried them in the Dublin Mountains.
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This would actually lead to searches, but nothing was ever turned up.
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Personally, I think the Republican angle makes no sense.
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Had Republicans managed to pull off a robbery of that kind, which I think would have been nearly impossible, they would surely have publicised the fact for political value.
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Furthermore, in 2003, the Military Archives published over 1700 interviews that were conducted with people who had lived through and participated in Ireland's revolutionary period.
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The Crown Jews were occasionally mentioned, but no one ever claimed they had been taken by Irish radicals.
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The last thing I want to say about the case that might help you make up your mind is actually about Arthur Vicker's death.
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So by nineteen twenty one, Arthur Vickers, broken by the entire affair, was living in Kilmorna House in County Kerry.
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Now the local IRA were aware of who he was, and they suspected him of passing information to the Crown forces.
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They had raided Kilmorna House in nineteen twenty, but they came again in nineteen twenty one.
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Arthur Vickers was shot dead and the house was burned.
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But Arthur Vickers had left a very interesting will.
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