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“In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.”
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy,
Oscar Wilde’s tutor.
Family Histories
Epic Dynastic Sagas
Turtle has written the history of over 200 families, mostly Irish or Anglo-Irish, from indigenous Irish clans and Anglo-Norman settlers to English and Scottish planters, Huguenot and Dutch emigrants, including multiple landed gentry, aristocracy, merchant and farming dynasties.
Vanishing Ireland
Interviews with Old Ireland
Homing in on people of a primarily working class Irish background, whose stories are rarely told, they met with farmers, blacksmiths, fishermen, dockers and nurses, as well as priests, nuns, teachers, saddlers, thatchers, lace-makers, clock-makers and turf-cutters.
Tales from Irish History
Heroes, Villains and Events
An ever-evolving archive of 200+ stories about people and events from prehistory through the epochs of Christian, Viking, Norman, Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, Georgian, Victorian and independent Ireland, including the Great Hunger, the Easter Rising and the two World Wars.