Fin Dwyer

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3,225 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Irish History Podcast · Dublin Port Has Seen It All: 1,200 Years of History. · 20 May 2026 podcast

grows to uh you know nearly 200,000 in the 18th century. podcast-host

But as you alluded to at the start, for the poor to really grow with the city and accommodate this metropolis and what some people call the second city of the British Empire, it requires these huge engineering works to deal with the the sandbars that you've talked about that limits podcast-host

movement in and out of the port. podcast-host

Um can you talk about some of the engineering works 'cause we're actually walking on one at the moment. podcast-host

It's this is the the great South Wall stretching way out into the bay. podcast-host

I think a lot of people would you know how airly this is built is something that strikes me. podcast-host

It's a an enormous feat of engineering but podcast-host

When did these works start? podcast-host

Had there been some of this done in the medieval period, or were they completely subject to the tides and the shifting of the sandbars, or were they podcast-host

And this is all happening, as I alluded to earlier, as Dublin is becoming this big city of empire. podcast-host

You know, we talked about the Vikings' arrival then the th the medieval period, but it's really in the eighteenth century where you see Dublin podcast-host

explode in in inside but also its economy and population. podcast-host

But with that connections to empire, there are darker parts of the history of the port that come into play. podcast-host

And obviously the 18th century is a time where the slave international slave trade really uh ramps up. podcast-host

And I just wonder does Dublin have connections to the slave trade? podcast-host

Obviously it's a big port in North podcast-host

Uh podcast-host

As the port then develops and you know I think a lot of what we're talking about is how podcast-host

The port essentially is podcast-host

the origin story of Dublin, but it also shapes then Irish history because Dublin becomes such a an important uh part of that story. podcast-host

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