Fin Dwyer

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3,096 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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Irish History Podcast · A Conspiracy of Fear & Silence: The Maamtrasna Murders · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Or is it just grab the usual suspects? podcast-host

Rattle them and see what comes out. podcast-host

It might be worth just kind of parsing that apart because you know, at the start we talked about the nature of the community in Mount Trasna. podcast-host

Galway City where they might have expected to have been tried is, I don't know, it was two days walk probably from Mount Trasn. podcast-host

It's an added distance, but there's a degree of familiarity. podcast-host

Dublin, it is worth saying at this point, it's a completely different world at this you know, and I I think often we think of Dublin as this impoverished city, but at the same time, Dublin by the late nineteenth century has public street lighting. podcast-host

It has a lot of you know, a a big public transport system. podcast-host

And what I'm getting at here is for these men coming into that city, now obviously they're in prison in the city, but it's a completely alien world. podcast-host

And we'll get podcast-host

onto the courthouse and the court proceedings, but they're very much in podcast-host

A place they're not familiar with and I podcast-host

I think I would go as far as to say that Dublin in the eighteen eighties is more similar to London than it is to Mount Drasna. podcast-host

It's the difference is huge. podcast-host

We'll move on to the trial and I I suppose to to set it up maybe, you can imagine at the time these what are horrific murders have taken place in Galway. podcast-host

This trial has been moved to Dublin and podcast-host

I think today, you know, we can look back at what happens and go, Oh, the eighteen eighties were a shocking time and if that but I I think today podcast-host

If something like this played out, there would be screams for justice really quickly. podcast-host

And we often see this play out that there's not that like calm that's often needed. podcast-host

But the trials opened very quickly in Dublin. podcast-host

And there's huge issues with the prosecution case. podcast-host

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