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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This case shocked the Victorian world.
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The murders themselves were particularly violent, but when police and journalists flocked to the community and the crime scene, they were deeply disturbed by what they encountered.
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Neighbors not only refused to help the surviving members of
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The Joyce family, but it was also obvious, given the remote nature of Mam Trasna, that the attackers were almost certainly known to, if not related to the victims.
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While the community closed ranks under the glare of police and media attention, in the following months injustice was followed by further injustice.
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While the motive for the attack and murders was never clear, eight men were convicted and three were hanged, one of whom, Miles Joyce, was entirely innocent.
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The impact of this murder and the botched prosecutions has echoed down the decades as neighbors turned on each other in an effort to avoid the noose.
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All the while, no one has ever offered a satisfying explanation for what happened in the Joyce home on that night.
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This podcast explores the case, looking at recent research on the murder and the trials that followed.
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Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.
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My name is Finn Dwyer.
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Now, longtime listeners to this show will know that this case is something I've always been interested in.
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About 10 years ago, I actually made a three part series on Ma'am Trasna.
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I'll link those below if you want to check them out after this episode.
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But today's show is based on an interview with Dr.
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Margaret Kellher, and we revisit the case looking at Margaret's latest research.
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Margaret her
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Herself published a book in 2018 called The Mabtras and Murders Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth Century Ireland.
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Now it's a fantastic book, and Margaret, as I say, revisited the case and also delved deeply into how this community in Mamtrasna, one that was largely Irish-speaking, suffered at the hands of a hasty and botched prosecution, partly because some at least didn't speak English.
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This not only resulted in further injustice, but it also distorted our understanding of what actually happened on that night.
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