Fin Dwyer
speaker
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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It reveals the scale of IRA activity in Britain and the wider support for Irish independence.
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That really took me aback.
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As you're about to hear, it was huge.
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The series is researched, written, and presented by Dr.
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Brian Hanley, who will be familiar to most of you at this stage in the series.
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But if it is your first time tuning in, Brian is a historian at Trinity College Dublin and one of the leading scholars in modern Irish history.
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I've included a full list of his works below, but if you want to find out more about this period and Irish Revolutionary history in general, Brian has published extensively on the Irish Revolution.
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English republicanism and radical politics in the twentieth century.
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Sound on this episode is by Kate Dunley.
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Now Brian begins the episode with a quote from a man who dominated British politics in the first half of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill.
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Among many other things, he had a lot to say about Ireland.
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I want to thank Brian for that fascinating episode.
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As I said at the start, the scale of activity in Britain and the depth of visible support for Irish independence really surprised me.
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Now I'll be back next Wednesday with an episode on something entirely different.
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That's Ohm, Ireland's oldest written script.
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Until then, Sloan.
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Mamtrasna is a stunning, picturesque rural community in the Partree Mountains in the west of Ireland.
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However, this idyllic landscape has a somewhat notorious history as one of the most unsettling and brutal crimes in Irish history took place there in the late 19th century.
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On the night of the 17th and the 18th of August 1882, the Joyce family were brutally attacked in their homes.
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All but one died, the youngest victim being only 14 years of age, the oldest an 8 year old woman.
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