Feb 25, 2023
The burning of two Irish ‘big house’ jewels during the Irish Civil War, including the 7th Earl of Mayo’s detailed account. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Aug 21, 2022
A short account of the love that bloomed between Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan, including an extract from the last letter she wrote to him before he was shot dead on 22 August 1922. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Jun 10, 2022
Dorothea Findlater, née de Courcy-Wheeler, was the oldest woman in Ireland for ten weeks before her death in 2017. As a child, she saw her father set off to Dublin to arrest Michale Mallin and Constance Markiewicz during the Easter Rising. He also took the famous...
May 3, 2022
Following the final quarter of a century of Tom Rathdonnell’s life from the outbreak of the First Word War and the Easter Rising through the Irish revolutionary period to his death on the eve of the Wall Street Crash. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library...
Mar 10, 2022
The oldest licensed premises in Belfast is also one of its most alluring. The pub was a meeting place for the United Irishmen in the run up to the disastrous rebellion of 1798. It is still easy to imagine such characters plotting revolution here over dark ales and...
