Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)
SIR RICHARD BURTON (1821-1890) EXPLORER EXTRAORDINAIRE Sir Richard Francis Burton was one of the most eccentric and brilliant explorers the world has known. During the 19th century, this intrepid scion of Co. Galway discovered Lake Tanganyika, translated the ‘Kama...
William Caldbeck (1733-1803) & the Moyle Park Gunpowder Mills
An account of the amateur architect and barrister who built a gunpowder mills for the Irish Volunteers in Clondalkin, County Dublin, in 1782, only for the mills to explode dramatically five years later. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas,...Protected: A Scandalous Affair – Princess Penelope of Capua (1815–1882)
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