May 9, 2022
Winifred Letts published a series of remarkable war poems during the First World War, in which she worked as a physiotherapist and nurse. The Dublin-based author also wrote poems for the Cuala Press, published children’s books and penned a play staged by the...
May 3, 2022
Following the final quarter of a century of Tom Rathdonnell’s life from the outbreak of the First Word War and the Easter Rising through the Irish revolutionary period to his death on the eve of the Wall Street Crash. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library...
May 1, 2022
A remarkable hunter, bred at Lisnavagh, who competed at the International Horse Show in London before going off to the Western Front as the mount of Captain Eustace Mansfield. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Apr 7, 2022
Listen to the podcast version of this story here. ***** Ernest Shackleton is one of the best-known names in the world of polar exploration. It wasn’t always like that. For a long time, he was a sort of afterthought, a division B ranker after heroes like...
Jan 22, 2022
‘You’d hear the same stories every week. Poor fellows. It all came back to them. They’d been prisoners-of-war and were badly shell-shocked. The things they’d seen.’ Frank O’Brien recalls the war veterans who drank in his family pub, as well as the Eucharistic Congress...
