Fin Dwyer
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3,225 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Fin Dwyer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.
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My name is Finn DeWar.
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Now my guest today, as I mentioned, is Lar Joy.
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Lar is the Heritage Director at Dublin Port, where he cares for the 300-year-old Port Archive and leads projects that reconnect the working port with the city through culture, heritage and public access.
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He's also an expert on the history of the port.
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I have Lar's full bio in the show notes below, along with lots of links and upcoming events in Dublin Port.
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Now, our conversation spans over a thousand years, looking at the complex story of how Dublin has been defined by its port.
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There are a few things that really stood out to me from our conversation.
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Things that took me by surprise.
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For example, the port's defences.
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These are largely forgotten today, but in the late 19th century, Dublin port had an extraordinary network of coastal defences protecting the bay and the port itself.
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Self.
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The second part of this story that really surprised me was when we got on to the Great Hunger and how the port, or at least some of those who worked in the port, were among the very few who profited from the catastrophe in the eighteen forties.
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But our conversation roves from invasion to rebellion and everything in between.
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Now, the show was recorded, as I said, on the Great South Wall in Dublin Port, a massive 18th-century seawall that you can still walk today.
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I would strongly recommend it, by the way, as it's a really stunning walk, but as you'll hear, it's also a pretty windy place at times.
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You'll also hear the sounds of the working port in the distance as we started our conversation.
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Sound on the show is by Kate Dunley.
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The natural environment, the bay and the river Liffey are obviously central to the history of Dublin Port, and as we started with the Vikings who were attributed with establishing Dublin back in A forty one, Lar highlighted the advantages, but also some of the major disadvantages of establishing a port in Dublin Bay.
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This is a recurring theme in our twelve hundred year journey through the port's history, and Lar explains it well here.
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