Jan 31, 2024
‘There’d have been a lot of animals around here when I was young. You’d always hear the pigs squealing. One of my neighbours had ducks who would go mad anytime it started raining.’ Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Jan 26, 2024
General Reviews I was utterly elated by the very first review I received for ‘The Irish Diaspora’ by Sean Connolly, published in the April 2021 edition of BBC History Magazine, the UK’s biggest selling history magazine. This is an extract: ‘An impeccably...
Jan 26, 2024
It was not the first time the German bombers had struck. The previous summer, when the nurses first arrived at Vertekop, there had been three air raids. This was one was so much worse. Seventeen bombs fell on the Red Cross hospital that morning. When the dust settled,...
Nov 20, 2023
I thought of the Falkland Islands whilst grimacing my way through ‘The Iron Lady’ on TV. I was reminded of the theory that Maggie Thatcher’s decision to go to war against Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982 was merely a ruse to distract the angry mobs...
Nov 10, 2023
‘The Troubles?’ smiles John. ‘Jesus, there’d be n’er a word of them until there was an election and then, sitting by the fireside at night, you’d hear the whole lot!’ Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
