Nov 15, 2023
One of the most remarkable figures in early medieval Irish history, Turlough was one of just two O’Connors to reign as High King of Ireland, holding the throne for an impressive 35 years. His cores strength was a vast fleet that dominated Irish waterways. Away from...
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...
Sep 8, 2023
An account of Walter Butler, of the Shankill Castle line of Butlers, who assassinated Albrecht von Wallenstein, the supreme commander of the armies of the Habsburg empire, at the height of the Thirty Years’ War. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to...
Feb 6, 2023
By 1305, Sir John Wogan was the most influential man in Ireland. As a reward, King Edward I of England gifted him Kilkea Castle and its manor lands. The property was also of much interest to the FitzGerald family, now Earls of Kildare, who were partly descended from...
Feb 2, 2023
Described as a ‘perfidious rogue’ and ‘a most ungrateful villain,’ the man who build Downing Street was also a brilliant scholar, a Puritan preacher, a duplicitous spy, a diplomat, an economist and a dastardly politician. Become a member of Turtle’s...
