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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Very much, I I suppose there's a political context to that.
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We're going to talk about something maybe slightly different or maybe related.
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But could you explain how that wider social upheaval
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in the years leading up to the Mam Traster murders affected the community 'cause certainly I think outsiders very much saw those three years from eighteen seventy nine to eighteen eighty two as being influential.
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If we move the story on then and approach august eighteenth, eighteen eighty two, the police have been alerted to an incident at the Joyce home.
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They arrive.
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I might get you first
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to give listeners a sense what they find there.
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And then we'll just talk a little bit about how we know the information we know because that's going to be a crucial part of this story, the interpretation of evidence on the ground in this community.
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But we might just start with a general outline of what the murders were.
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And while this precise details about what happened in that house the previous night are a matter of dispute right up to the present day, maybe can we just elaborate a little bit on what we do know and maybe what does remain disputed in terms, I suppose, that there are very violent murders.
podcast-host
We we we know that from the evidence that was in the house at the time, but there is a lot about, you know, what exactly happened that remains uh questioned.
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And across Ireland more broadly, it's fair to say this was quite an unusual attack.
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You know, you could go back maybe earlier in the nineteenth century, I'm thinking of things like the murders of Light W Wild Goose Lodge, the murders of the Shea family in South Tipperary.
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But by the later nineteenth century, this type of attack is very unusual, i insofar as if you've alluded to their
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an entire family is targeted from young children through to an elderly woman.
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And I I suppose it is worth
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putting it in the context of as you've alluded to there, the motives
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are not still understood.
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And that's complicated by the fact that it as a as a crime is very unusual at the time.
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