Notes on Westport, County Mayo

Notes on Westport, County Mayo

From Achill’s trains of the dead to slave‑freeing marquesses, Botox barons, Nazi broadcasters and sabre-rattling generals, Westport’s small Atlantic stage has launched some of Mayo’s strangest tales … Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all...
Notes on Enniscorthy, County Wexford

Notes on Enniscorthy, County Wexford

Highlighting notable figures from Enniscorthy, including Eileen Gray, a pioneering modernist architect and furniture designer; Martin Cash, an infamous Australian bushranger; acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín, as well as Denys Corbett Wilson, the first aviator to fly...
A Historical Odyssey through Dublin’s Literary Pubs

A Historical Odyssey through Dublin’s Literary Pubs

The pub and the pen have always gone hand in hand, especially in Dublin. That’s why the city is so celebrated for its playwrights and poets and authors from Jonathan Swift to Oscar Wilde to Flann O’Brien to Sally Rooney. That’s why Dublin is a UNESCO City...
Rolling Around the Achill Sound (1999)

Rolling Around the Achill Sound (1999)

Ireland’s largest outlying island is also one of its most magical.. If you’ve only got time to gaze out a moving windscreen, then a tour of the island shouldn’t take more than an hour. But it is better suited to day-trippers, with numerous options...