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Turtle Bunbury is a best-selling author, historian, public speaker, content creator and TV presenter based in Ireland. He will appear on the new US series of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' on 3 December 2018.
He is presently working on a new series of books to be published in the UK and US in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Turtle is the curator of two historical exhibitions on show at St Peter's Church, Cork City, Ireland, throughout 2018.
He has recently spoken
at
events such as the 2018 Allstate Circle of Champions in Ireland; the St Patrick's Day Festival in
Savannah, Georgia; Hinterland;
the Borris Festival of
Writing & Ideas and the
IBAM Celebration in Chicago. He will be speaking in Munich about the life of Lola Montez on 25 November.
Turtle's books include the award-winning Vanishing Ireland series, Easter
Dawn (2015), The
Glorious
Madness
-
Tales
of the
Irish &
the
Great War (short-listed
for
Best
Irish-published
Book
of
the Year
2014) and
1847 - A Chronicle of
Genius, Generosity & Savagery, which
Oscar-nominated film
director Lenny
Abrahamson
describes as 'vivid,
surprising,
hugely
entertaining;
an unforgettable
encounter with
an
extraordinary year.'
Turtle also specialises in writing corporate, family and house histories.
On show at St Peter's Church, Cork, throughout 2018, 'A City By The Sea' offers a whistle-stop journey through Cork’s long and extraordinary maritime history, while 'Cork 1918' looks at the city as it was 100 years ago. Curated by Turtle, the show is replete with colourful tales of the pirates, patriots, emigrants, heroines, chancers and warriors who sailed upon the Lee and beheld this majestic harbour in ages past.
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Turtle co-hosted 'Ireland Salutes John Henry Foley', an afternoon of talks and debate at Dublin Castle in honour of the influential Irish sculptor.
He penned his first 'Irishman's Diary' column for the Irish Times in January 2018.
A past winner of Ireland's Long Haul Travel Journalist of the Year Award, his work has been published in National Geographic Traveler, The Daily Beast, The World of Interiors, Playboy, The Financial Times, The New York Post, The Australian, Inspirato, The Guardian and Vogue Living.
Turtle is married to the novelist and PR guru Ally Bunbury, author of The Inheritance and, her latest work, Infidelity, which the Irish Independent describes as 'a funny, escapist novel full of quirky twists and turns that leaves you wanting more.'
Turtle co-presented two series of the 'Genealogy Roadshow' for RTE. He is the founder of Wistorical, an innovative concept for promoting Irish history globally. He also co-founded the History Festival of Ireland.
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