Nov 10, 2023
‘The Troubles?’ smiles John. ‘Jesus, there’d be n’er a word of them until there was an election and then, sitting by the fireside at night, you’d hear the whole lot!’ Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Oct 15, 2023
Timmy and Patsy have been best friends since childhood, despite the complications of one being Protestant and the other Catholic. ‘He went that way to school and I went that way,’ explains Patsy, and the two men roar with laughter for a moment or two. Patsy then said...
Sep 17, 2023
Vanishing Ireland – Atty Dowling from AWAY2TRAVEL on Vimeo. Atty would not be drawn into a discussion about his extraordinary tea towel collection. He just stoked the turf fire and changed subject. Now that he is dead and gone, the world will never know the...
Jun 23, 2023
On 27 July 1946, nine-year-old Hebert Remmel disembarked from the mail-boat at Dun Laoghaire and walked trancelike into the dense crowds gathered to greet him and the eighty-seven skinny and bewildered little boys and girls who had travelled with him. As he was hugged...
Jun 2, 2023
‘My grandfather was a bit of a character. A genius in his own right. He made a colossal amount of money in the late 1920s. He could foresee the Depression and sold every animal he had, except the milking cow. A year and a half later, after the crash, he bought them...
