County Carlow Archives - Turtle Bunbury Irish Histories

Michael Keogh – The Irishman who Saved Hitler

Sep 21, 2023

In 1919, an Irishman working as a policeman stopped a mob from pummelling a right wing radical to death on the streets of Munich. Michael Keogh would come to rue the day when the radical transpired to be Adolf Hitler. Complete access to all articles on this website...

Atty Dowling (1916 – 2005) – Farm Labourer, Tobinstown, Co. Carlow

Sep 17, 2023

Atty worries that times had gone 'nearly too good'. 'People get everything so handy! In my young day, no one could fall out with anyone because you didn't know the minute or the hour or the day you might have to turn to that person. But now, every one is gone...

Seamus McGrath (1921-2014) – Farmer & Actor – Killerig, County Carlow

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...

A Rare 19th Century Stick Grenade – Oak Park, County Carlow

May 31, 2023

Homing in on a grenade found as part of a cache in the basement of Oak Park House in County Carlow, shortly after it was taken over by An Foras Taluntais (now Teagasc). Complete access to all articles on this website for €12 / year...

Murphy of Kill House, near Tullow, County Carlow