Jan 22, 2022
Recollections of a deadly German bomb on Mount Leinster, the Borris lacemakers and meeting Mary Martin, the American musical actress and mother of Dallas star Larry Hagman. ***** At 6:45am on 3rd January 1941, the people of Borris, County Carlow, awoke to a...
Jan 22, 2022
‘Did you not read all about me in the papers?’ asks Willie Davey, his face breaking into a broad George Clooney grin. ‘Ah now, my story is a long one. I’d need some time to track the memory back’. We are standing in his roadside prefab in Ballinvoher, a couple of...
Jan 22, 2022
The Very Rev. Patrick Gill muses upon a horrendous pogrom in 1795 that drove 7,000 Ulster Catholics to Connaught, the impact of the Great Hunger on County Mayo and his own experiences administering a parish at the foot of Croagh Patrick. Become a member of Turtle’s...
Jan 22, 2022
‘Everyone was very poor at that time,’ recalls Cathy of her childhood near Moone, County Kildare. ‘There was no money and people had to work hard. They only survived, that’s all. Still everyone was happy. They had no money. But, now, they all have money and maybe...
Jan 22, 2022
Bernie was a bachelor who lived in the house in Ballymote, County Sligo, that his grandfather established as a butcher’s shop in 1927. When we met him, he had retired and spent much of his time seated beside a smouldering fire, reading historical books, yellowing...
