Dec 3, 2021
Hailing from Cambrai in French Picardy, the Lefroy family arrived in England as refugees during the French Wars of Religion. Having prospered as silk merchants in Canterbury, two branches emerged. The Irish branch included Tom Lefroy, famed as the love interest of...
Nov 3, 2021
A dynasty whose bloodlines interlink across multiple generations from their origins in the Huguenot stronghold of Portarlington, County Laois, to Wicklow, the Dublin Docklands, Meath and the distant lands of the USA and Australia. George Halpin, the ‘Founding Father’...
Oct 26, 2021
The celebrated satirist and author of such works as ‘Gulliver’s Travel’s’, Swift was Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin for over 30 years. However, perhaps the greatest conundrum of his life was how to maintain an intimate relationship with two women, without...
Oct 4, 2021
True love, abduction, betrayal, attempted murder, a wrathful father, an illegitimate child. With backdrops like Georgian Dublin, the craggy shores of County Clare and the remote hills of Tuscany, it plays out like a readymade movie. And to cap it all, the handsome...
Oct 4, 2021
A review of Danny Mansergh’s book, “Grattan’s Failure: Parliamentary Opposition and the People in Ireland, 1779-1800” (2005, Irish Academic Press), published by Magill in August 2005. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas,...
