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HISTORY
IRISH HISTORY
“In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs”, Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, tutor to Oscar Wilde.
Turtle's interest with Irish history bore its first fruits when, while at school in Scotland, an essay he wrote on Michael Collins won the Gladstone Memorial Essay Prize. He subsequently read history at Trinity College Dublin, returning to the subject after a three-year absence in Hong Kong.
As well as the Vanishing Ireland series and The Irish Pub, he is the author of several books on Irish history, including The Dublin Docklands (2009), The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of County Wicklow (2005) and The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of County Kildare (2004). He has also written inumerable private family histories and other commissioned treatises of a historical nature. Examples of these can be found throughout this website.
Turtle’s expertise lies with Ireland since the 17th century. However, viewing history as a jigsaw, the subject matter of these essays stretch back more than 2500 years to an age when the western shores of Europe first came under the influence of a new order – that of the Celtic civilization.
Articles
- A History of Ireland in 500 Words
- Tuatha De Danaan
- Thoughts from Moone High Cross
- Molana Abbey
- Massacre of Mullaghmast of 1577
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Thomas Harriot - The True Discoverer of the Potato
- Essex & the Siege of Caher 1599
- Richard Boyle's Munster
- The Redlegs of Barbados
- Men in Tights - Battle of the Boyne 1690
- The Arrival of the Irish Palatines, 1709
- The Butcher of Culloden & the Hell-Fire Club 1747
- How they Voted for Act of Union 1799, 1800
- The Irishmen who Liberated Chile, 1810
- George IV's Royal Visit to Dublin, 1821
- The Whiteboy Insurrection in Macroom, 1822
- The Night of the Big Wind 1839
- The Sultan of Drogheda, 1847
- The San Patricios of Mexico 1847
- The Assassination of John Lloyd, 1847
- The Golden Circle of Victorian Ireland
- The Golden Age of Irish Tennis
- Ireland - A Land of Victorian Vampires
- The Connaught Rangers
- Knox D'Arcy - The Irish Oil Tycoon
- Queen Victoria's Royal Visit to Dublin, 1900
- Sam Maguire, Liam McCarthy and Michael Collins, 1909
- Dr. Sigerson and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon, 1911
- Bachelor's Walk Massacre1914
- The Flag of the Easter Rising 1916
- Alcock & Brown’s Trans-Atlantic Crossing, 1919
- Michael Keogh - The Man who Saved Hitler, 1919
- Coolnacaheragh Ambush, 1921
- The Burning of Knockcroghery, 1921
- The Irish Sweepstake, 1930-1987
- Operation Shamrock 1946-49
- The Big Snows of 1947, 1963 & 1982