Turtle Bunbury

Writer and Historian

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• History
  • Irish History
    • Click here for full contents of Turtle's articles on Irish history
  • Write around Ireland
    • Donegal Catch
    • A Tour of Carlow, Wicklow and the Garden of Ireland
    • Follow me up to Carlow
    • Kilkenny 2006 - Cool for Cats
    • Rolling Around the Achill Sound
    • Spotlight on Belfast City - Mind, Body & Soul
  • Family histories
    • Click here to read about more families from Ireland, Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia, Russia & other places.
  • House histories
    • Ballintemple: Dark Knights, Blue Bells
    • Ballyfin, Co. Laoise
    • Bishopscourt, Co. Monaghan
    • Chesterfield House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
    • Corkagh, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin
    • Finnstown House, Co. Dublin
    • Humewood Castle, Co. Wicklow
    • Huntington Castle, Co. Carlow
    • Rathsallagh: A Potted History of 5000 Years
    • Viewmount House, Co. Carlow
    • 29 Molesworth Street, Dublin
  • Heroes and Villains
    • Click here for the complete contents of the 'Heroes & Villains' section.
    • Click here to listen to podcasts of Turtle's 'Hidden Histories' on Newstalk Breakfast, 2013.
• Published Works
  • Books
    • 1847 (2016)
    • Easter Dawn - The 1916 Rising (2015)
    • The Glorious Madness - Tales of the Irish & the Great War (2014)
    • Vanishing Ireland series (2006-2013)
    • Sporting Legends of Ireland (2010)
    • Dublin Docklands - An Urban Voyage (2009)
    • The Irish Pub (2008)
    • Living in Sri Lanka (2006)
    • The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co Wicklow (2005)
    • The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co Kildare (2004)
    • The Remarkable Albums of Sylvia Drew (2011)
    • The Kildare Hunt (2011)
  • Interiors
    • HOTELS & GUESTHOUSES
    • IRISH COUNTRY HOUSES
    • TOWNHOUSE & APARTMENTS
    • RURAL RETREATS
    • VILLAS
    • Czech Republic: Mikhail Treštík - Cubist Ceramics in Prague
    • Czech Republic: No 46 - The Best Place to Stay in Prague
    • Mexico: Andrea Valeria, Cuernavaca
    • Mexico: Casa Ken Scott, Cuernavaca - A House of Fabric
    • Mexico: Casa Leof - A Pre-Columban Sculpture Fantasia
    • Mexico: The Incredible Mrs Lambert - Casa Leon, Cuernavaca
    • Mexico: Mario Avila's Magical Cavern - Tepozteco
    • Northern Ireland: The Kilwarlin Estate in Hillsborough - Ulster says "Yes!"
    • South Africa: Libertas - A Cape Dutch Home of 18th Century Murals
    • Spain: Casa Alba – The Home of Candida Taylor
    • Spain: La Higuera - A Converted Olive Mill in Gaucin
    • Spain: Cider with Rosie - A Villa in Sotogrande
    • Spain: Majada del Lentiscus - The Melians of Sotogrande
    • Sri Lanka: The Dutch House, Galle
    • Sri Lanka: La Maison des Artes, Mount Lavinia
    • Sri Lanka: The Lighthouse Hotel, Galle
    • USA: Cape Cod & Pine Woods - Jaffrey, New Hampshire
    • Zimbabwe: Siyalima - Amid the Mavuradonna Wilderness
    • Zimbabwe: Soo Pierecy's Tannery - Awaiting the Inevitable
    • Ireland: Auburn House, Co Dublin
    • Ireland: A Tale of Two Houses, Blackrock & Sandymount
    • Ireland: Ballyhook House, Co. Tipperary
    • Ireland: Ballyvolane, Co. Cork
    • Ireland: Beacon Court, Sandyford, Co. Dublin
    • Ireland: Deirdre Mongey, Vale of Avoca
    • Ireland: The Elysium on Dublin's Leeson Street
    • Ireland: Emily House at Carton
    • Ireland: Grove Paddock, Blackrock - Renaissance in Co. Dublin
    • Ireland: Helnwein's Castle, County Tipperary
    • Ireland: Howth Head - A Slice of Frank Lloyd Wright
    • Ireland: Ladycastle at the K-Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare
    • Ireland: Lisnavagh House, Co Carlow
    • Loughcrew House, Co. Meath - Gilded Magnificence
    • Ireland: Lough Rhynn - Leitrim Retreat
    • Ireland: Mahaffy House, Dublin City - Restored Home of Oscar Wilde's Tutor
    • Ireland: Oak Lodge, Duleek, Co. Meath
    • Ireland: The Old Mill, Co. Kildare - Celtic Inspiration
    • Ireland: The Stables, Co Wicklow
    • Ireland: Rosie's Place, Co. Carlow - A Sculptress at Home
    • Ireland: Rowells of Leeson Street, Dublin City
    • Ireland: Sea Lodge, County Louth
    • Ireland: Skeaghyvagh, Co. Kildare - Lighting up the Fox's Den
    • Ireland: St. Ann's Apartments, Donnybrook - Rearranging the 70s
    • Ireland: Suzanne Freeman at Mount Juliet, Co. Kilkenny
    • Ireland: Tarquin Landseer, Co. Dublin - To the Canvas Born
    • Ireland: Temple Bar - The Heart of Dublin City
    • Ireland: Temple House, Co. Sligo - Atlantic Stronghold of Knights Templar
    • Ireland: Timber Frames in Greystones, Co. Wicklow
    • Ireland: Tritonville Road, Dublin - A Gutsy Renovation
    • Ireland: Tudor Hall, Monkstown, Dublin
    • Ireland: Wyvern, Bray
  • Travel
    • Click here for Turtle's travel stories from National Geographic Traveler (2014) & other magazines, including Australia, Ireland, Sicily, Sri Lanka, the USA, Nova Scotia, France, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Spain, Jersey, Gozo.
  • Features
    • Click here to see a list of articles by Turtle which have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world over the past decade.
  • Columns
    • Crested Apes [ITM, 08/08]
    • Chicken or Egg? [ITM, 08/08]
    • Hydrogen Man [ITM, 07/08]
    • A Wily Fox [ITM, 07/08]
    • Baltinglass Solstice [ITM, 06/08]
    • The Diving Bell [ITM, 06/08]
    • Picart's Ceremonies [ITM, 05/08]
    • Struwwelpeter [ITM, 04/08]
    • Ballroom Floor Gloss [Irish Times Magazine, 04/08]
    • Silence of The Bonfires [Dubliner, 02/01]
    • Vive la Difference! [Dubliner, 03/01]
    • Feudal Blues - In Praise of Betty Scott [Dubliner, 04/01]
    • A Sense of Purpose [Dubliner, 05/01]
    • Being Anglo-Irish - A Hyphenated Existence? [Dubliner, 06/01]
    • The Importance of Bunbury [Dubliner, 08/01]
    • My Father & Other Animals [Dubliner, 09/01]
    • An Ode to Pagan Days [Dubliner, 10/01]
    • The 'Emancipator of Jamaica' [Dubliner, 12/01]
    • Love & Marriage [The Dubliner, 02/02]
    • Hells Bells
    • Life is a Frying Pan [BC Magazine, 04/97]
    • The Pearly Gates [BC Mag, 05/97]
  • Book reviews
    • Click here to view a complete list of books reviewed by Turtle in recent years.
• Family
  • The Bunbury Family
    • Baron de St. Pierre
    • Bunburys in the Medieval Age
    • Ireland’s First Bunbury Connection?
    • Bunbury of Lisnavagh
    • Bunbury of Johnstown
    • Bunbury of Killerig
    • Bunburys of Virginia
    • Bunbury of Lisbryan & Woodville
    • Bunbury Isaac Family
    • Bunbury of Cranovonane
    • Bunbury of Kilfeacle
    • Bunburys of Guyana
    • Bunbury of Ardnehue & Liverpool
      
    • Bunbury of Wexford & Ballyseskin
    • Major Thomas Bunbury of New Zealand
    • Versturme-Bunbury
    • Unidentified Bunburys
  • The McClintocks
    • McClintocks & the House of Stuart
    • McClintock of Drumcar
    • John McClintock, Baron Rathdonnell
    • McClintock of Dunmore
    • McClintock of Rathvinden
    • McClintock of Trintaugh
  • Lisnavagh
    • Lisnavagh - The Pre-Bunbury Era
    • Benjamin Bunbury I (1642-1707)
    • William Bunbury I (1674-1710)
    • William Bunbury II (1704-1755)
    • Thomas Bunbury I (1705-1774)
    • William Bunbury III (1744-1778)
    • George Bunbury (1747-1820)
    • Benjamin Bunbury II (1751-1823)
    • Thomas Bunbury II (d. 1846)
    • Captain William McClintock Bunbury (1800-1866)
    • Tom McClintock Bunbury - 2nd Baron Rathdonnell (1848-1929)
    • Hon. Jack Bunbury (1851-1893)
    • Hon. Billy Bunbury (1878-1900)
    • T. L. McClintock Bubury, 3rd Baron Rathdonnell (1881-1937)
    • W.R. McClintock Bunbury, 4th Baron Rathdonnell (1914-1959)
    • Major Hugh Massy (1914-1987)
    • Kinsellagh's Hill
    • Germaine's of Lisnavagh
    • Rathvilly School, Birmingham
  • Related Families
    • Sylvia Drew's Albums
    • Campbell of Drumsna
    • Colley of Mount Temple & Corkagh
    • Colvin of Monkhams Hall
    • Drew of Eversley & Burnley
    • Clancarty of Ballinasloe
    • Finlay of Corkagh
    • Foster of Collon & Dunleer
    • Gough of Gujerat & Woodstown
    • Ievers of Ceylon
    • Kane of Monaghan & Swords
    • Kane Smith of Moyle & Rathmore
    • Martin of Dublin & Virginia
    • Paget of the Samarang
    • Peart Robinson of Lancashire
    • Stronge of Tynan Abbey
  • General Tales
    • Being a Bunbury
• Interviews
  • Ireland

    Click here to see a full list of persons interviewed for the Vanishing Ireland project.
  • Arts and Design
    • Mrs. Evelyn Lambert
    • Gottfried Helnwein
  • Recollections
    • Brian Kennedy
  • Miscellaneous
    • Helga de Silva Perrera Blow
    • Dorothea Findalter (Wheeler Cuffe)
    • Bill Harrington
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