Oct 16, 2024
The Kilkenny-born architect who designed and built the White House and then, after it was destroyed by a fellow Irishman in the War of 1812, rebuilt it! He also supervising the building of both the United States Capitol and US President James Monroe’s family mansion...
Oct 2, 2024
Sir Roger Casement became a national hero in Ireland following his arrest during the 1916 Easter Rising and subsequent execution. However, in the decades before the rebellion, he was much better known as Britain’s foremost human rights activist. He was especially...
Jul 5, 2024
Margaret Behan Dunne (1806-1891), the postmistress of Kildare Town, had two remarkable nephews. Johnny Behan served as Sheriff of Cochise County in the Arizona Territory during the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, while Paul Boyton was a showman known as the...
Jun 4, 2024
Recorded by Alan Clegg 12 23 I remember my mother telling us about this tragedy which occurred in Australia in 1918. I recently came across some of the details while doing some family history research so for the sake of not losing the story I am recording all...
Apr 29, 2024
Born in County Cork, in 1834, Eliza Lynch became the lover of Francisco Solano López, the president of Paraguay. In this essay, Turtle made the ground-breaking revelation that her father Dr John Lynch, died of a fever contracted in 1840 ‘in the discharge of his...
