Oct 19, 2022
Fifteen Maguires were crowned as Kings of Fermanagh between 1264 and 1589. The region was, by and large, stable for those three centuries. The Maguires were exceptionally progressive, their households replete with historians, poets and learned men. They were also...
May 17, 2022
Featuring accounts of Ellen, Countess of Desart; Mick Jagger; Hubert and Peggy Butler (of Butler Gallery fame); Lionel of Antwerp & the Statutes of Kilkenny; Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley & Kilkenny College; Martin Renehan – White House Doorman; and...
Feb 5, 2022
Looking at the townlands connections to Sir Walter de Ridelesford (or Riddlesford), Lord of Bray, as well as the Knights Templar, the Fratres Cruciferi of Castledermot and the displacement of the Mac Gormáin or O’Gorman family, and the Bull Ring. Become a member of...
Feb 5, 2022
One of the most influential early Cambro-Normans was Raymond Le Gros, a nephew of Maurice FitzGerald, who was hailed as the Achilles of the Anglo-Norman army. Raymond married Basilia de Clare, sister of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, later known as Strongbow....
Feb 5, 2022
A potted history of a fabulous ruin in north-east County Carlow, with its link to one of the combatants at the battle of Bannockburn. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
