Turtle Bunbury Books

Turtle Bunbury is a best-selling author, historian, public speaker, content creator and TV presenter based in Ireland. His books include The Irish Diaspora - Tales of Emigrants, Exile & Empire (Thames & Hudson, 2021), the award-winning Vanishing Ireland series, Ireland's Forgotten Past (Thames & Hudson, 2020), Easter Dawn (2015), The Glorious Madness - Tales of the Irish & the Great War (short-listed for Best Irish-published Book of the Year 2014) and 1847 - A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery. turtlebunbury.com 
 

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REVIEWS OF TURTLE'S BOOKS

 
‘Delicious … a stirring atlas of Irishness’
Sebastian Barry, The Guardian

'A skilled storyteller who carries his learning lightly and his readers with him'.
BBC History Magazine

‘A rare and cherishable thing: combining assiduous research with a nose for ribald fun, Bunbury disinters the odd, the arcane and the profoundly surprising from the dark recesses of a mostly unknown history'
The Yorkshire Times

 
'Vivid, surprising, hugely entertaining'

Lenny Abrahamson

 
‘What I love about Turtle’s writing is that he takes a subject that you might only have a slight connection with, and then he tells you a story that pulls you right into the middle of it.’ 

John Toal, BBC Radio Ulster