S5E19: Fin Dwyer Check-In - A Lethal Legacy
Fin Dwyer of Irish History Podcasts pays a return visit to Irish Stew. We last hosted Fin two years ago. Since then, Fin has continued to fascinate his listeners with in depth episodes on a broad range of Irish History topics. Despite this frenetic pace, Fin has found time to publish a book titled: A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders.
We'll be talking about two cases detailed in the book and what they can tell us about how Ireland has changed over the past 200 years. We'll also find out what Fin has in store for his listeners in 2024
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00:00 - Introduction
02:56 - The Genesis of A Lethal Legacy
06:44 - 1798 and the Acts of Union
08:48 - The 1821 Murder of the Shea Household in Tipperary
16:53 - The Official Response to the Shea Murder
21:20 - Researching a 200 Year Old Murder
24:31 - A Failure to React to the Irish Crisis
27:32 - The 1981 Homophobic Murder of Declan Flynn
37:04 - AIDS and Divine Retribution
41:18 - Upcoming Podcasts: The Troubles
46:28 - Martin Recap
48:32 - Credits
Irish History Podcaster
Fin Dwyer, is a historian, author and podcaster. Fin studied archaeology and Greek and Roman Civilisation in University College Dublin and completed a masters in archaeology in 2004.
After working in archaeology for several years in the Dublin region a combination of recession and ill-health ended Fin's aspirations to become Indiana Jones. In 2010 he created the Irish history podcast. For the first few years the show focused on medieval history.
During this period he published two books ‘Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome, Life in Medieval Ireland’ (2013) & 1348 – A Medieval Apocalypse, War Famine & Plague in 14th century Ireland‘ (2016).
In late 2016 the podcast series shifted focus to the Great Famine – this has been funded by listeners to the show. Fin has also worked on several projects.
2015 – 2016 I created ‘The other 1916‘ for the RTE history show which looks at events outside the headline news of war and rebellion that year.
2016-2017 Researcher for the BBC Irish language history series Tochailt Staire.
2017 Creator of the Kilkenny Famine Experience – a multimedia tour through Kilkenny Workhouse.
2018 Creator of the Dublin Famine Tour
