Aeneas Coffey & the Docks Distillery

Aeneas Coffey & the Docks Distillery

The 16-story Google Docks (formerly Montevetro) on Barrow Street in Dublin’s Docklands stands on the site of a distillery where a whiskey revolution commenced almost 200 years ago. Between 1826 and 1835, the Dock Distillery was leased to Aeneas Coffey...
Notes on the Connolly Station area in Dublin City

Notes on the Connolly Station area in Dublin City

Looking at stories of the sculptor John Henry Foley, the beautiful Montgomery sisters, the 1916 leader James Connolly, the eccentric Earls of Aldborough, the boundary wall around the Custom House docks and one of Europe’s biggest red light districts. Become a...
Captain Jack White (1879-1945) & the Irish Citizen Army

Captain Jack White (1879-1945) & the Irish Citizen Army

An account of the charismatic 1916 commandant, based on ‘Captain Jack White: Imperialism, Anarchism and the Irish Citizen Army’ by Leo Keohane. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...