Apr 17, 2025
Erskine Childers is famed for steering the yacht Asgard into Howth in 1914, delivering 900 German rifles to the Irish Volunteers. Less well known is his work as as aerial observer for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War One, where he served over the...
Mar 11, 2025
Isabella McClintock Bunbury (1874-1963), the eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Rathdonnell, married Lt. Col. Forrester Farnell Colvin. Their children included Jack Colvin, a war hero, and Dame Mary Colvin, Director of the Women’s Royal Army Corps. The Colvin family...
Mar 11, 2025
The story of a Tipperary horse that became a the best friend of Second Lieutenant John (Jack) Forrester Colvin during their four long years on the Western Front. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Dec 27, 2024
Click here for more stories of County Down. William Charles Hall of Newtonards, County Down, married Olive O’Grady Roche, daughter of Sir Standish Dean O’Grady Roche and his wife Lady Mary, of Aghade Lodge, Ballynoe, County Carlow. At the time of the 1901...
Dec 16, 2024
Peirce Charles O’Mahony (1850-1930), aka The O’Mahony, was a close friend of Charles Stewart Parnell. In 1904, he and his second wife Alice founded St Patrick’s Orphanage in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The city’s Plostad Pierce O’Mahony, a...
