Dec 1, 2023
Over the course of 2007 and early 2008, James Fennell and I visited every county in Ireland bar Leitrim, popping our heads into an estimated 700 pubs. We undoubtedly missed a heap of brilliant pubs but we returned home with 70 pubs photographed. We subsequently...
Dec 1, 2023
One day James Fennell proposed that the pair of us put together a book on Irish pubs. We would focus on the old style pubs, the ones that were starting to close down and fade away in every town, village and crossroads we passed through. The sort of pubs where, in the...
Dec 1, 2023
Published by Thames & Hudson, The Irish Pub was one of the best-selling books in Ireland over Christmas 2008. A collaboration between Turtle and the photographer James Fennell, the book examines 39 old-style pubs from the cities of Belfast, Dublin and Galway to...
Dec 1, 2023
Return to Contents of The Irish Pub. Over the course of 2008, the photographer James Fennell and I spent about three months on the road researching the best pubs in Ireland for the book ‘The Irish Pub.’ This was an arduous task, which we did just...
Oct 11, 2022
‘If priests were allowed to marry, they wouldn’t have had half the number of scandals.’ When Tom Frawley makes his point, he does not slam his fist on the bar. He says the words with quiet certainty. He has thought the matter through thoroughly and he knows he is...
