The Orange Pole Incident, Mountmellick, County Laois, 1825

The Orange Pole Incident, Mountmellick, County Laois, 1825

A double‑sided tin plate of King George IV and William of Orange once crowned Mountmellick’s Market House, rallying Orangemen each 12 July until priests, boycotts and magistrates finally brought the pole – and its pageantry – down Become a member of Turtle’s History...

Henry Ivers & the Move to Ireland

HENRY IVERS & THE MOVE TO IRELAND SPECULATIVE ORIGINS A parchment found in the sideboard at Mount Ievers in July 2012 maintains that Henry Ivers arrived in Ireland in 1640 from Yorkshire, where the family had been settled since arriving with William the Conqueror...
The Trench Family, Earls of Clancarty

The Trench Family, Earls of Clancarty

A remarkable family, descended from a French Huguenot refugee whose grandson established the family at Ballinasloe in County Galway. Headed up by the Earl of Clancarty, its prominent figures include one of the architects of modern Europe after Napoleon’s fall, a...