Feb 15, 2023
Madam, – As I sit here wrestling with an unidentified flu, I find myself compelled to raise an objection to the name of the pandemic presently sweeping the globe. Swine flu is an unpleasant name … a letter published in the Irish Times in 2009. Become a member of...
Mar 27, 2022
The following interview was conducted by Martin Russell, Books Editor of the Irish-American Post, and appeared in March 2020, coinciding with the launch of ‘Ireland’s Forgotten past’ (and the arrival of a certain irksome virus …). The...
Mar 11, 2022
‘Delightful’ says The Irish Times. ‘Fascinating’ concurred the Independent-on-Sunday. ‘A brilliant history of the Irish pub’ declared Country Life. ‘A masterpiece of pub porn’ said the Sunday Independent. Turtle’s...
Mar 10, 2022
“1847” is, for me, the best thing Turtle has done so far. It is vivid, surprising, hugely entertaining; an unforgettable encounter with an extraordinary year.’ Oscar-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson and others weigh in on Turtle’s 2016 book...
Feb 28, 2022
Contents Turtle traces the story of the Irish abroad from the hazy stories of the first missionaries through the seafarers, warriors and explorers of centuries past. Homing on on a variety of convicts, imperialists, emigrants, famine refugees and political...
