Oct 4, 2021
William Desmond Taylor was 49 years old when a fatal bullet ploughed into his back in 1922. The murder of the popular Irish film director was to become one of the greatest unsolved crimes in Hollywood history. Perhaps, as he lay dying in his bungalow in downtown Los...
Oct 4, 2021
An inspiring tale of migration and achievement, Michael McNamara from County Clare arrived in Australia in 1864, paving the way for his daughter Sarah to become the First Lady of Australia as the wife of Prime Minister Jim Scullin. Become a member of Turtle’s History...
Oct 4, 2021
Michelle Obama’s forefathers include Charles Shields, a slave-owner of Irish descent, who lived in the very same county in Georgia State where the fictional Scarlet O’Hara’s family lived in ‘Gone With The Wind’. This is the remarkable story of how Charles...
Oct 4, 2021
A look at the Duchess of Sussex’s ancestry including the Dublin marriage of Belfast-born Mary McCue (McCague) and Private Thomas Bird, the Malta connection, the move to New Brunswick and the birth of Meghan Markle’s great-grandmother in New Hampshire....
Oct 4, 2021
Hugh Gough commanded in more battles than any other British soldier of the nineteenth century save for his fellow Irishman, the Duke of Wellington. This included his victories in the Opium War and the Anglo-Sikh Wars. His mother was a Bunbury. Become a member of...
