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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Until then, Sloane.
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Centuries before early Irish monasteries were producing manuscripts like the Book of Kells, people in Ireland had developed their own form of writing, Ome.
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Now at first glance, Ome scarcely looks like writing at all.
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There are no flowing letters, no familiar alphabet, no words that leap out to catch the modern eye.
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Instead it takes the form of short strokes often read from the bottom upwards, and yet these marks are among the earliest surviving traces of the Irish language.
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They preserve names, ancestors, claims to land.
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Fragments of a world that existed over fifteen hundred years ago.
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But while Ohm is Ireland's first known writing system, its history is much more than that.
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It provides a glimpse into what Irish society was like before the earliest histories were written down, and archaeologists and historians have been able to tell so much from analysing what often might be dismissed as strokes on stones.
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This podcast explores what Ome is and what it tells us about Ireland in the distant past.
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Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.
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My name is Findwar.
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Now, my guest on today's show to explore the history of Ohm is Dr.
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Nora White.
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Nora is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Airly Irish at Minut University.
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She previously worked on the Ohm in 3D project at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and then subsequently on the joint Minuth University and University of Glasgow Ohm Project.
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That has produced some incredible discoveries which we're going to talk about today.
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It also produced the website ohm.kelt.dias.ie where you can see the ohmstones we're talking about and where other ohmstones are located across Ireland and Britain.
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Now that URL is a bit of a mouthful, but I do have it linked in the show notes below.
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Just before we begin, I do have a little bit of housekeeping, so I'm working on a pretty complicated episode at the moment and it needs a little bit more time, so there's going to be no show out.
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