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Bunbury
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Irish History
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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
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House histories
Ballintemple, County Carlow
Ballyfin, Co. Laoise
Ballyvolane, Castlelyons, County Cork
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
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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
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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
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Family
The Bunbury Family
Baron de St. Pierre
Bunburys in the Medieval Age
Irelands 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
Admiral McClintock's Family
McClintock of Dunmore
McClintock of Rathvinden
McClintock of Seskinore
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)
Daniel Robertson, Architect (d. 1849)
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
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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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