Dec 3, 2023
That great silence which accreted around the extraordinary conflagration of the Great War in so far as it affected Ireland, has been often, ironically, spoken of in our time. But there always has been a trace of the war, silence or no silence, inside, literally,...
Dec 1, 2023
Foreword Reviews of The Glorious Madness An Appreciation by Sebastian Barry Why I Wrote The Glorious Madness PART ONE: THE WESTERN FRONT Introduction The Irish Dames of Ypres Jack Judge (1872-1938) — The Man Who Wrote ‘Tipperary’ The Christmas...
Nov 6, 2023
My hairbrush once belonged to Alan Drew, my father’s great-uncle, who was killed in one of those pointless over-the-top charges in World War One. Prior to his death, Alan taught at Mostyn House (the school near Liverpool where he studied as a boy), learned how...
Sep 21, 2023
In 1919, an Irishman working as a policeman stopped a mob from pummelling a right wing radical to death on the streets of Munich. Michael Keogh would come to rue the day when the man he saved transpired to be Adolf Hitler. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library...
May 31, 2023
Once home to the Bunbury family, Kill House (Kilmagarvogue) later passed to Edward Murphy, an Irish nationalist. His son Bill died fighting alongside Tom Kettle at the Somme – the Captain Murphy Memorial Hall in Tullow is named for him. Become a member of...
