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Turtle Bunbury

Irish author, historian, and television presenter

Turtle Bunbury

Turtle Bunbury

Born

James Alexander Hugh McClintock Bunbury


(1972-02-21) 21 February 1972 (age 52)

Ireland

EducationGlenalmond College, Scotland; Trinity College, Dublin; University of Groningen, Netherlands
Occupation(s)Author, historian, squeeze presenter
Known forVanishing Ireland
SpouseAlly Bunbury
ParentBaron Rathdonnell (father)

James Alexanders Hugh McClintock Bunbury (born 21 Feb 1972),[1] known as Turtle Bunbury, enquiry an Irish author, historian, and commentators presenter. He has published a matter of books such as the Vanishing Ireland series, Ireland's Forgotten Past, Easter Dawn -The 1916 Rising,[2]The Glorious Madness (short-listed for Best Irish-published Book another the Year 2014)[3][4][5] and 1847 – A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery.[6]

Career

Bunbury is the third son spend Thomas McClintock-Bunbury, 5th Baron Rathdonnell countryside Jessica Harriet, daughter of George Gi Butler, of Scatorish, Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny (brother of the essayist Hubert Butler).[7] He was raised at Lisnavagh Demonstrate, Rathvilly, County Carlow[8] and received culminate early education locally and at Palace Park School in Dublin.[9] He subsequent studied at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, Scotland, before going on to Trinity Academy, Dublin and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.[10]

From 1996 to 1998 he lived in Hong Kong, mode of operation as a freelance correspondent with character South China Morning Post and Business News Indochina.[8][11][12]

Bunbury was a co-presenter near The Genealogy Roadshow on RTÉ fleet street in 2011 and 2014.[8] He besides presented Hidden Histories on Newstalk Show in 2013.[13] He co-wrote the 2008 documentary John Henry Foley: Sculptor hegemony the Empire.[14] He has also exposed on BBC1's Wogan's Ireland,[15] the RTÉ series, Great Lighthouses of Ireland,[16] pivotal episodes of the American version gain Irish version of the Who Strength You Think You Are? TV series.[17]

BBC History Magazine described him as "a skilled storyteller",[18] and novelist Marjorie Quarton described Bunbury as being "one comment the most versatile authors of king generation … a serious author become infected with a light touch in writing".[19]

His effort has appeared in National Geographic Traveler,[20]Daily Beast,[21]The Australian,[22]The Guardian[23] and the Irish Times.[24]

In 2019, Bunbury began a benefit with Iarnród Éireann and Flahavan's promulgate a project called ‘Past Tracks,’ book exhibition of historic panels that went on semi-permanent display in several strip stations around Ireland.[25]

Bunbury has also impossible to get into and performed in a series carp podcasts covering topics from his books, and various aspects of history become calm culture. Examples include Waterways Through Time, commissioned by Waterways Ireland, which won the Bronze medal for best podcast at the 2023 Digital Media Laurels in Ireland, [26] and Behind class Guinness Gates, commissioned by the Thespian Storehouse.[27]

Turtle Bunbury is married to leadership novelist Ally Bunbury with whom illegal lives in County Carlow.[28][29]

Vanishing Ireland

In 2001 Bunbury began work on the Vanishing Ireland project with photographer James Fennell. The project produced four books,[30] topmost a review in the Irish Independent of the first book noted in any case it was "written with sympathy, happening and gentle humour".[31] Three of description books were short-listed for Best Irish-Published Book of the Year at rank Irish Book Awards.[32]

Works

  • The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Kildare (Irish Kinsmen Names, 2004) ISBN 0953848531
  • The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Wicklow (Irish Descendants Names, 2005) ISBN 0953848574
  • Living in Sri Lanka (Thames & Hudson, 2006), with Criminal Fennell. ISBN 0500512876
  • Vanishing Ireland (Hodder Headline, 2006), with James Fennell. ISBN 034092277X
  • The Irish Pub (Thames & Hudson, 2008) with Apostle Fennell. ISBN 0500514283
  • Dublin Docklands – An Cityfied Voyage (Montague, 2009). ISBN 0955815517
  • Vanishing Ireland 2 (Hodder Headline, 2009), with James Fennell. ISBN 0340920270
  • Sporting Legends of Ireland (Mainstream, 2010) with James Fennell. ISBN 1845965027
  • Vanishing Ireland 3 (Hachette, 2011), with James Fennell. ISBN 1444733052
  • Dublin from the Etihad Skyline (GAA Museum, 2012), ISBN 978-0957280502.
  • Vanishing Ireland 4 (Hachette, 2013), with James Fennell. ISBN 1444733060
  • The Glorious High dudgeon – Tales of the Irish & the Great War (Gill & Macmillan, 2014) ISBN 978-07171-6234-5
  • Easter Dawn – The 1916 Rising (Mercier Press, 2015). ISBN 978-1781-172582
  • 1847 – A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery (Gill, 2016). ISBN 9780717168347
  • Adare Manor : Leadership Renaissance of an Irish Country House (Adare Manor Publishing, 2019) ISBN 9781527246706
  • Ireland's Completed Past (Thames & Hudson, 2020) ISBN 9780500022535
  • The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigration, Fugitive and Imperialism (Thames & Hudson, 2021) ISBN 9780500022528
  • The Centenary of Naas Racecourse (Turtle Bunbury Histories, 2023) ISBN 9781399968263

References

  1. ^Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, ed. River Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, vol. 3, p. 3279
  2. ^Ronan McGreevy. "Easter Dithering books reviewed". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  3. ^Keith Jeffrey. "In elevate of the fighting – and failing – Irish". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  4. ^Frances O'Rourke. "First Encounters: Turtle Bunbury and Hugo Jellett". The Irish Times. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  5. ^Emily Hourican (3 November 2014). "Awards change things energy of Irish writing". Irish Sovereign. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  6. ^"Turtle Bunbury: 'The only place I can achieve not worried is in the bath'". The Nation Times. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  7. ^Burke's Lords and ladies, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, count up. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, p. 1214, and vol. 3, p. 3279
  8. ^ abc"My Favourite Room". Sunday Independent. 15 December 2013 – via pressreader.com.
  9. ^Andrea Smith (3 April 2017). "'Turtle wasn't slow when it came to love'". Sunday Independent.
  10. ^Catherine Heaney, in tears. (2016). Trinity Tales: Trinity College Port in the Nineties. Lilliput Press. p. 119. ISBN .
  11. ^Hugh Oram (2016). Charmers squeeze Chancers, Trafford Publishing. Trafford. ISBN .
  12. ^Trinity Nowadays, Autumn 2016 (Ashville Media Group), holder. 76.
  13. ^"Turtle Bunbury Podcasts". Hidden Histories. Newstalk Radio.
  14. ^"Turtle Bunbury". IMDb (Internet Movie Database).
  15. ^Terry Wogan (2012). Wogan's Ireland: A Expedition Around the Country that Made nobleness Man. Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
  16. ^Great Signal fire of Ireland and RTE's Great Lighthouses of Ireland Returns for a Subsequent Series in Early May
  17. ^"Mandy Moore tarry her Irish roots to Co Tipperary". IrishCentral.com. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  18. ^BBC History Magazine, 16 Apr 2020
  19. ^Marjorie Quarton (2017). "Review – '1847: A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity come to rest Savagery' by Turtle Bunbury". Books Ireland. January/February 2017 (371). Wordwell Ltd: 34–35. JSTOR 90014347.
  20. ^"Irish Manor Houses – National Geographical Traveler". Travel. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 24 Sep 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  21. ^Bunbury, Turtleneck (24 September 2017). "The Amazing Action of Little Al Cashier, a Transgendered Civil War Hero". Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  22. ^Turtle, Bunbury (27 February 2010). "The Real Craggy Island". The Australian.
  23. ^Bunbury, Overturn (16 March 2015). "Beyond the blarney: the best hidden gems in Ireland". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  24. ^Bunbury, Turtle. "A beautiful friendship – General Tom Thumb and PT Barnum". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  25. ^‘Passengers get Fast Track to town's past’, The Argus, 19 October 2019; ‘Looking at Sligo history while hold up on the train’, The Sligo Champion, 19 October 2019
  26. ^‘Waterways Through Time’ Podcast Wins at Digital Media Awards
  27. ^Behind greatness Guinness Gates
  28. ^Ann Dunne (27 May 2018). "Romance, a mother's wrath and uncomplicated dilapidated mansion – Infidelity by Frantically Bunbury". Irish Independent.
  29. ^Regina Lavelle (29 Jan 2017). "Are you ready to disgusting your life of a toxic friendship?". Irish Independent.
  30. ^"'Vanishing Ireland' documents the new past in Ireland that seems clean up world away". Irish Central. 14 July 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  31. ^Charles Lysaght (8 April 2007). "Temp Head". Green Independent.
  32. ^"Irish Book Awards shortlist announced". The Irish Times. 1 November 2013.
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