Subscribe for Unlimited Access to Turtle’s History Quarter.
Includes content from Vanishing Ireland, Easter Dawn, Dublin Docklands, The Irish Pub, Maxol and many more, as well as Waterways Ireland, the Past Tracks project and hundreds of historical articles on Irish families, houses, companies and events.

Margaret ‘Nana’ McKenny (1918-?), Nurse & Nanny – Ardee, County Louth
‘I’m not bad for 91, am I?’, says Nana McKenny (née McEvoy), sitting back and exhaling deeply. [1] ‘Ninety-one years is a long time ago.’ It has been a long, long time since she delivered her first new-born cries in the old farmhouse at Callystown by Clogherhead on 17 April 1918. [2] ‘I was born […]