Turtle Bunbury

Writer and Historian

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  • Irish History
    • 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
    • Men in Tights - Battle of the Boyne 1690
    • The Night of the Big Wind 1839
    • The Golden Circle of Victorian Ireland
    • The Golden Age of Irish Tennis
    • Ireland - A Land of Victorian Vampires
    • Knox D'Arcy - The Irish Oil Tycoon
    • Alcock & Brown’s Trans-Atlantic Crossing, 1919
  • Write around Ireland
    • Donegal Catch
    • A Tour of Carlow, Wicklow and the Garden of Ireland
    • Follow me up to Carlow
    • Kilkenny 2006 - Cool for Cats
    • Rolling Around the Achill Sound
    • Spotlight on Belfast City - Mind, Body & Soul
  • Family histories
    • Acton of Kilmacurragh
    • Benson of The Fould
    • Blake of Menlough & Meelick
    • Boyle, Earl of Shannon
    • Brabazon, Earl of Meath
    • Browne-Clayton of Browne's Hill
    • Conolly of Castletown
    • Cuffe, Earl of Desart
    • Dacres Dixon - Astronomers & Earldoms
    • De Burgh of Oldtown
    • De la Poer Beresford of Curraghmore
    • Delbridge of Cornwall
    • Dennis of Fortgranite
    • De Robeck of Gowran Grange
    • Disney of Stebannon
    • Fennell of Burtown
    • Holroyd-Smyth of Ballynatray
    • Madden of Hilton Park
    • Maunsell of Oakley Park
    • Maxwell of Corduff
    • Moore, Earl of Mountcashell
    • Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough
    • Ponsonby of Kilcooley Abbey
    • Rudall of London
    • Smyth of Ballynatray
    • Smyth of Headborough
    • Whishaw: From Rudheath to Russia
    • Yelverton, Viscount Avonmore
  • House histories
    • Ballintemple: Dark Knights, Blue Bells
    • Bishopscourt, Co. Monaghan
    • Chesterfield House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
    • Finnstown House, Co. Dublin
    • Humewood Castle, Co. Wicklow
    • Huntington Castle, Co. Carlow
    • Rathsallagh: A Potted History of 5000 Years
    • Viewmount House, Co. Carlow
    • 29 Molesworth Street, Dublin
  • Heroes and Villains
    • Complete 'Heroes & Villains' Contents
    • William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke (1144-1219)
    • Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1565-1578)
    • Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1556-1565)
    • Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
    • Bartholomew Mosse (1712-1759)
    • Abbe de Firmont (1745-1807)
    • Honest Tom Steele (1778-1848)
    • Charles Bianconi (1786-1875)
    • Sir John Conroy (1786-1854)
    • General Frederick Young (1786-1874)
    • James Whiteside, Lord Chief Justice (1804-1876)
    • Princess Penelope Smyth of Capua (1805-1882)
    • John and Thomas Hickey - The Sculptor & the Artist
    • John Sadlier (1813-1856)
    • Charles Spencer Cowper (1816-1879)
    • John Henry Foley (1817-1874)
    • Sir William Gregory (1817-1892)
    • Sir Joseph Neale McKenna (1819 –1906)
    • Lola Montez (1821-1861)
    • William Shaw (1823-1895)
    • Charles Joseph Kickham (1828-1882)
    • Baron Albert Grant (1831-1899)
    • Knox D'Arcy (1849-1917)
    • Francis 'Frank' Dubedat (1851-1919)
    • Billy the Kid (1859-1881)
    • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
    • Henry Ford (1863 – 1947)
    • Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz (1891-1980)
    • Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
    • Lucia Joyce (1907-1982)
    • Kick Kennedy (1920-1948)
    • Bill Harrington (1922-2009)
    • Jimmy Bolger the Coalman
• Published Works
  • Books
    • Sporting Legends of Ireland (2010)
    • Vanishing Ireland, Volume II (2009)
    • Dublin Docklands - An Urban Voyage (2009)
    • The Irish Pub (2008)
    • Vanishing Ireland, Volume 1 (2006)
    • Living in Sri Lanka (2006)
    • The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co Wicklow (2005)
    • The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co Kildare (2004)
  • Interiors
    • HOTELS & GUESTHOUSES
    • IRISH COUNTRY HOUSES
    • TOWNHOUSE & APARTMENTS
    • RURAL RETREATS
    • VILLAS
    • Czech Republic: Mikhail Treštík - Cubist Ceramics in Prague
    • Czech Republic: No 46 - The Best Place to Stay in Prague
    • Mexico: Andrea Valeria, Cuernavaca
    • Mexico: Casa Ken Scott, Cuernavaca - A House of Fabric
    • Mexico: Casa Leof - A Pre-Columban Sculpture Fantasia
    • Mexico: The Incredible Mrs Lambert - Casa Leon, Cuernavaca
    • Mexico: Mario Avila's Magical Cavern - Tepozteco
    • Northern Ireland: The Kilwarlin Estate in Hillsborough - Ulster says "Yes!"
    • South Africa: Libertas - A Cape Dutch Home of 18th Century Murals
    • Spain: Casa Alba – The Home of Candida Taylor
    • Spain: La Higuera - A Converted Olive Mill in Gaucin
    • Spain: Cider with Rosie - A Villa in Sotogrande
    • Spain: Majada del Lentiscus - The Melians of Sotogrande
    • Sri Lanka: The Dutch House, Galle
    • Sri Lanka: La Maison des Artes, Mount Lavinia
    • Sri Lanka: The Lighthouse Hotel, Galle
    • USA: Cape Cod & Pine Woods - A Home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire
    • Zimbabwe: Siyalima - Amid the Mavuradonna Wilderness
    • Zimbabwe: Soo Pierecy's Tannery - Awaiting the Inevitable
    • Ireland: Auburn House, Co Dublin
    • Ireland: A Tale of Two Houses, Blackrock & Sandymount
    • Ireland: Ballyhook House, Co. Tipperary
    • Ireland: Ballyvolane, Co. Cork
    • Ireland: Beacon Court, Sandyford, Co. Dublin
    • Ireland: Berkeley Forest, County Waterford
    • Ireland: Deirdre Mongey, Vale of Avoca
    • Ireland: The Elysium on Dublin's Leeson Street
    • Ireland: Emily House at the Carton Demesne
    • Ireland: Grove Paddock, Blackrock - Renaissance in Co. Dublin
    • Ireland: Helnwein's Castle, County Tipperary
    • Ireland: Howth Head - A Slice of Frank Lloyd Wright
    • Ireland: Ladycastle at the K-Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare
    • Ireland: Lisnavagh House, Co Carlow
    • Loughcrew House, Co. Meath - Gilded Magnificence
    • Ireland: Lough Rhynn - Leitrim Retreat
    • Ireland: Mahaffy House, Dublin City - Restored Home of Oscar Wilde's Tutor
    • Ireland: Oak Lodge, Duleek, Co. Meath
    • Ireland: The Old Mill, Co. Kildare - Celtic Inspiration
    • Ireland: The Stables, Co Wicklow
    • Ireland: Rosie's Place, Co. Carlow - A Sculptress at Home
    • Ireland: Rowells of Leeson Street, Dublin City
    • Ireland: Sea Lodge, County Louth
    • Ireland: Skeaghyvagh, Co. Kildare - Lighting up the Fox's Den
    • Ireland: St. Ann's Apartments, Donnybrook - Rearranging the 70s
    • Ireland: Suzanne Freeman at Mount Juliet, Co. Kilkenny
    • Ireland: Tarquin Landseer, Co. Dublin - To the Canvas Born
    • Ireland: Temple Bar - The Heart of Dublin City
    • Ireland: Temple House, Co. Sligo - Atlantic Stronghold of Knights Templar
    • Ireland: Timber Frames in Greystones, Co. Wicklow
    • Ireland: Tritonville Road, Dublin - A Gutsy Renovation
    • Ireland: Tudor Hall, Monkstown, Dublin
    • Ireland: Wyvern, Bray
  • Travel
    • Italy: Aeolian Islands of Sicily
    • Nova Scotia: Land of Lobsters
    • Ireland: Co Clare - Shark Fishing
    • Cambodia: A Report by Hugo Jellet
    • Czech Republic: Head Above Water (2002)
    • Denmark: Royal Winks & Fairytales
    • France: Be-Bop-a-Lula in Paris!
    • France: Flirting with Alpine Gods
    • France: Marseilles & the Calanques
    • Hungary: Behind the Iron Curtain
    • Ireland: Waterford - The Unconquered City
    • Ireland: Kilkenny City - Cool for Cats
    • Jersey: An Island of Potatos & Cows
    • Mexico: Mision del Sol, Quatro Manos
    • Mexico: The Silver City of Taxco
    • Spain: Sotogrande, Paradise Reconstructed
    • Smoker's Holiday - An Abroad Spoof
    • Sri Lanka: Aman Resorts 2007
    • Sri Lanka 2002: Anyone for Tennis?
    • Sri Lanka 2005: Howzat!? - Winner of the Travel Extra Longhaul Journalist of the Year Award 2005
    • Tenerife - Lost Arms & Comedy Seals
    • USA: Fishy Tales from Tampa, Florida (2001)
    • USA: Tennessee Sounds Good to Me
    • Zimbabwe 2000 - Another Annus Horibilis
    • Zimbabwe: Pamushana Safari Lodge - As Good as it Gets
  • Features
    • The Fastnet Tragedy - August 2009
    • Sad Demise of the Rural Pub - August 2009
    • The Bridges of Dublin City - August 2009
    • Lily Allen & the Artane Band - August 2009
    • Croke Park Rodeo of 1924 - July 2009
    • Bartholomew Mosse & the Rotunda - April 2009
    • Aill na Caillí – The Deserted Village
    • A Pint Sized History of the Irish Pub
    • A Word of Warning
    • Ballintemple: Ancient World, Ancient Fish
    • Ballroom Gloss
    • Bob Dylan - Kilkenny 2001
    • Brian Kennedy - Falls Road Boy
    • Castles in the Sky
    • Clobber Slobber! Is the Global Media Failing Us?
    • Croquet - The Forgotten Irish Sport
    • Gottfried Helnwein
    • Too Close to Closing Time for Irish Pub - Nov 2008
    • Ireland's Winegeese
    • Ireland in the Blood
    • Jasper Conran - A Crystal for All Seasons
    • Kilkenny City - Cool for Cats
    • Knox D'Arcy -Mayo's Oil Tycoon
    • Mrs. Lambert - The American who Conquered Europe
    • Vikings Ahoy!
    • Villages at a Crossroads
    • Waterford - The Unconquered City
  • Columns
    • Crested Apes [ITM, 08/08]
    • Chicken or Egg? [ITM, 08/08]
    • Hydrogen Man [ITM, 07/08]
    • A Wily Fox [ITM, 07/08]
    • Baltinglass Solstice [ITM, 06/08]
    • The Diving Bell [ITM, 06/08]
    • Picart's Ceremonies [ITM, 05/08]
    • Struwwelpeter [ITM, 04/08]
    • Ballroom Floor Gloss [Irish Times Magazine, 04/08]
    • Silence of The Bonfires [Dubliner, 02/01]
    • Vive la Difference! [Dubliner, 03/01]
    • Feudal Blues - In Praise of Betty Scott [Dubliner, 04/01]
    • A Sense of Purpose [Dubliner, 05/01]
    • Being Anglo-Irish - A Hyphenated Existence? [Dubliner, 06/01]
    • The Importance of Bunbury [Dubliner, 08/01]
    • My Father & Other Animals [Dubliner, 09/01]
    • An Ode to Pagan Days [Dubliner, 10/01]
    • The 'Emancipator of Jamaica' [Dubliner, 12/01]
    • Love & Marriage [The Dubliner, 02/02]
    • Hells Bells
    • Life is a Frying Pan [BC Magazine, 04/97]
    • The Pearly Gates [BC Mag, 05/97]
  • Book reviews
    • Grattan's Failure, Danny Mansergh - Henry Grattan as an Irish revolutionary.
    • Foley's Asia, Ronan Sheehan - a lucid account of the remarkable Victorian sculptor John Henry Foley.
    • Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie, Victoria Glendinning
    • Yesterday We Were in America, Brendan Lynch (Alcock & Brown)
• Family
  • The Bunbury Family
    • Baron de St. Pierre
    • Bunburys in the Medieval Age
    • Ireland’s First Bunbury Connection?
    • Bunbury Isaac Family
    • Bunbury of Cranovonane
    • Bunbury of Kilfeacle
    • Bunbury of Johnstown
    • Bunburys of Virginia
    • Bunburys of Guyana
    • Major Thomas Bunbury of New Zealand
    • Versturme-Bunbury
  • The McClintocks
    • McClintocks and the House of Stuart
    • McClintock of Dunmore
    • McClintock of Rathvinden
    • McClintock of Trintaugh
  • Lisnavagh
    • Benjamin Bunbury I (1642-1707)
    • William Bunbury I (1674-1710)
    • Thomas Bunbury I (1705-1774)
    • William Bunbury III (1744-1778)
    • Benjamin Bunbury II (1751-1823)
    • Captain William McClintock Bunbury (1800-1866)
    • Tom McClintock Bunbury - 2nd Baron Rathdonnell (1848-1929)
    • Hon. Jack Bunbury (1851-1893)
    • Hon. Billy Bunbury (1878-1900)
    • T. L. McClintock Bubury, 3rd Baron Rathdonnell (1881-1937)
    • Major Hugh Massy (1914-1987)
    • Kinsellagh's Hill
  • Related Families
    • Campbell of Drumsna
    • Colvin of Monkhams Hall
    • Drew of Westmorland
    • Clancarty of Ballinasloe
    • Foster of Collon & Dunleer
    • Gough of Gujerat & Woodstown
    • Ievers of Ceylon
    • Kane of Monaghan & Swords
    • Martin of Dublin & Virginia
    • Paget of the Samarang
    • Stronge of Tynan Abbey
  • General Tales
    • Being a Bunbury
• Interviews
  • Ireland
    • Vanishing Ireland - Index
    • Atty Dowling, Labourer, Co. Carlow
    • Bill Burgess, Co Carlow
    • Ballyduff Three, Co. Waterford
    • Jack Nestor, Co. Clare
    • Joe McCabe, Hurler, Co. Laoise
    • Mick Keneally, farmer, Co Clare
    • Mrs. Carter, Lacemaker, Co. Carlow
    • Mrs. McBride, Farmer, Co. Offaly
    • Nellie O'Toole, Nurse, Co. Carlow
    • Shaunie Quinlan, Gravedigger, Co. Tipperary
  • Arts and Design
    • Mrs. Evelyn Lambert
    • Gottfried Helnwein
  • Recollections
    • Brian Kennedy
  • Miscellaneous
    • Helga de Silva Perrera Blow
    • Bill Harrington
• Links
• Contact

Interviews - Vanishing Ireland

INDEX TO INTERVIEWS FROM VANISHING IRELAND, VOLS. 1 & 2

ANASTATIA KEALY

ATTY DOWLING

BABY RUDDEN

BALLYDUFF THREE

BERNIE DWYER

BETTY SCOTT

BILL BURGESS

CATHY DOWLING

DENNY GALVIN

EDWARD HAYES

EILEEN HALL

EUGENE BRADY

FATHER PATRCIK GILL

FRANCIE McFADDEN

FRANK O'BRIEN

GEORGE THOMAS

GRETTA CARTER

JACK CONOLLY

JACKIE WILSON

JACK NESTOR

JACK 'GINGER' POWELL

JAMES & JOHNNY McGARVEY

JIM KIELTY

JIM O'MALLEY

JOAN CROWLEY

JOE McCABE & MICK LAWLOR

JOE MULDOON

JOHN CARSON

JOHN MATHIS

JOHNNY FYFE

JOHNNY GOLDEN

LIAM & MAUREEN O'SHEA

MATILDA McBRIDE

MARY MADDISON

MICK KING, Co Mayo

MICK LAVELLE

MICK KENEALLY

NELLIE & CHRISTY KELLY

NOEL ROBINSON

NANA MCKENNIE

NELLIE O'TOOLE

OWEN CAMPBELL

PADDY HENEGHAN

PETER WARD

P. J. DAVIS

SEANIE QUINLAN

SISTER RITA & SISTER ALPHONSUS

SONNY KINSELLA & BART NOLAN

STEVIE & TIMMY KELLEHER

TERESA McGERTY

WILLIE DAVEY

Articles

• Vanishing Ireland - Index
• Atty Dowling, Labourer, Co. Carlow
• Bill Burgess, Co Carlow
• Ballyduff Three, Co. Waterford
• Jack Nestor, Co. Clare
• Joe McCabe, Hurler, Co. Laoise
• Mick Keneally, farmer, Co Clare
• Mrs. Carter, Lacemaker, Co. Carlow
• Mrs. McBride, Farmer, Co. Offaly
• Nellie O'Toole, Nurse, Co. Carlow
• Shaunie Quinlan, Gravedigger, Co. Tipperary

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