[Deep Dive] Behind the scenes of a victorian murder investigation

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

History, Interviews, War Of Independence, Ireland, Norman Invasion, Vikings, Great Famine, Great Hunger, Irish History

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Given the popularity of true crime genre, we are increasingly familiar with how murder investigations work in the 21st century. However they were quite different in the 19th century. In the third deep dive of Murder at Mother Mountain I am joined by Dr Niamh Howlin to explain how murder investigations & trials worked in the 1840s. Niamh is an expert on 19th century law and she explains how the process worked before DNA, forensics or even the concept of a trial by a jury of our peers existed!

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0:00.0	Hey folks, before you dive in, just a quick heads up about the Warford launch of my new book
0:04.6	Alita Legacy, A History of Ireland in 18 Murders.
0:07.6	It takes place in the book center, on Red Square in Warford at 6.30pm on Friday, September
0:13.6	29th.
0:14.6	The book center is one of my favorite bookshops.
0:17.1	It's built into an art deco cinema from the 1930s, it alone is reason enough to come
0:21.5	to the launch.
0:22.5	But hopefully I'll see you there on Friday the 29th at 6.30pm for the launch of Alita
0:27.8	Legacy, A History of Ireland in 18 Murders.
0:30.5	Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.
0:41.6	My name is Finn Dwyer, and this is the third deep dive in the murder of Mother Mountain
0:47.0	series.
0:48.0	Now as is the case with all the deep dives, this podcast has spoilers for the first three
0:53.8	installments of the series, so if you're not up to speed yet, I'd really recommend
0:58.6	going back and listening to the first three parts of Murder at Mother Mountain, and then
1:03.1	coming back to this show.
1:04.6	Now for everyone who is up to speed, you will have followed Ellen and William through
1:09.0	their trial in part three.
1:11.4	So in this third deep dive in the series, we're going to get in behind the scenes in
1:16.2	the 19th century legal system in Ireland to see exactly how it functioned, and I'm
1:21.2	delighted to have Neve Haulen to explain this to us.
1:25.2	Now Neve is an associate professor and head of the School of Law at UCD.
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