Fin Dwyer
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3,096 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Fin Dwyer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I might just pull back from the specifics of the case.
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It just I think something that people today would find surprising is how fast the whole process moves in the in the late nineteenth century.
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It's not unique to Mam Trass in the cases.
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Move very fast once the legal machinery starts to move.
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This is all done and dusted essentially in the space of a couple of months.
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You've already outlined
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you know, reasons why if this happened today it would take probably years and much longer than a normal case.
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But can you just give listeners a sense of how a murder case, a murder trial, would work in the nineteenth century?
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What you know, if and we'll talk about the accused in a minute, but what could they expect, the process that they would face?
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We might talk then move on to actually the ten accused, the three what are called approvers at the time, these men who testify as to what they saw and actually what's quite important is what they didn't see.
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In terms of a murder trial, we're talking about the people who actually carried out the murder.
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We've already talked about how this is a very small community in many ways.
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People are related to each other.
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All these people have connections between the accused, the people who testify for the state and the victims, the the Joyce family.
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But as you say, they move quickly, they arrest several people in the community.
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Do the police have a working theory and they're going, Okay, well, if this was the motive, that guy, that guy, that guy, they're going to be guilty, or is it
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As you've said there, pretty much everyone wants this case of that the time the British authorities are very fearful in the aftermath of the Phoenix Park murders.
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Also for Irish nationalists, I think there's f it's fair to say there's a degree of embarrassment that this happens and that this, you know, sheds poorly on what would have been seen at the time as the quote unquote Irish character, our ability to rule ourselves.
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So everyone wants it done fast.
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But is there a is there a theory that the police work off of
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