Turtle Bunbury

HISTORY

“I take refuge in the past. I find it a comfortable zone because it’s already happened. It can’t be changed. It simply is. Only these days we’ve managed to harness the past and convert it into showbiz. And I’m delighted. It means historical bores like me stand a chance of making some cash”.
Turtle, The Dubliner.

Turtle Bunbury, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, is the author of four books on Irish history, The Irish Pub (Thames & Hudson, 2008), Vanishing Ireland (Hodder Headline, 2006), “The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Wicklow” (IFN, 2005)“and The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Kildare” (IFN, 2004).

Historical articles by Turtle have featured regularly in The Irish Times, The Dubliner, Magill, Cara and Visitor.

Turtle is available as a historical consultant. 'John Henry Foley - Ghost of the Empire', a one-hour historical documentary researched and co-scripted by Turtle, aired on RTE in August 2008. He also appeared in a documentary about the Irish president Erskine Childers in May 2007.

History Sub-sections

Irish History
- A potted history of Ireland from earliest times to the present day.

Write Around Ireland
- humorous historical takes on Irish towns and villages.

Family histories
- resurrecting families across the world.

House histories
- the stories behind some of Irelands' greatest architectural gems.

Heroes and Villains
- some of the more unusual and enigmatic children of Ireland.

Writer and Historian

HISTORY

History Sub-sections