Fin Dwyer
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3,225 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
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Fin Dwyer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a really great read.
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It provides excellent context to the Mam Trasler murders, and I'd highly recommend it if you want to dive deeper into this case after the show.
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Now this Friday, Brothers in Pain, The Global History of the Irish Revolution with Dr.
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Brian Hanley continues, so make sure you tune in to that.
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Sound on the episode is by Kate Dun Lee.
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Context is key to any murder case, but this is particularly true with Mam Trasna.
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So Margaret and I began our conversation by talking about where Mam Trasna is and what it was like back in the eighteen eighties.
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In the eighteen eighties, it was an increasingly sparse or rural community, might be a better way of putting it.
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Can you just describe a community that lived in what was certainly seemed to outsiders at quite a remote place?
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And then if we kind of broaden the lens a bit, obviously you were going to talk about a very violent incident.
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But contrary to maybe what you might see in English newspapers of the time, Ireland was, generally speaking, in the later nineteenth century, a peaceful place, becoming more and more peaceful.
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Like, you know, if we look at crime statistics, things like that, certainly compared to the eighteen thirties and eighteen forties.
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However, the Mabtrasna murders does take place in the immediate aftermath of major social upheaval, I suppose best known as the land war, that had seen outbreaks of you know frequent riots.
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There's a there are dozens of murders that take place in that.
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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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