Turtle Bunbury in Action

Turtle Bunbury is a best-selling author, historian, public speaker and TV presenter based in Ireland. His books include Around the World in 1847 (to be published in 2016), Easter Dawn - The 1916 Rising (to be published in autumn 2015), The Glorious Madness - Tales of the Irish & the Great War (short-listed for Best Irish-published Book of the Year 2014), Living in Sri Lanka and the award-winning Vanishing Ireland series.

He is co-presenter of 'Genealogy Roadshow', the pioneering RTE television series produced by Big Mountain which spawned the hit series on PBS America.

This footage is extracted from an episode in the second series in which Turtle follows the trail of William Burke, the so-called Night Rider. When his friends and brother were sentenced to swing for their part in a plot to kill some County Cork gentry, Burke rode through the night for 90 miles to bring the eminent Daniel O'Connell back to defend them. The footage was shot in Doneraile, County Cork, and the Cork City Courthouse, and was directed by Sophie MacNeice.

Turtle has also appeared on programs such as 'Who Do You Think You Are?', 'Wogan's Ireland' and 'Nationwide'.

He is the founder of Wistorical, an innovative concept for promoting local history globally, and co-founder of the annual
History Festival of Ireland.

A past winner of Ireland's Long Haul Travel Journalist of the Year Award, his work has been published in National Geographic Traveler, The World of Interiors, Playboy, The Irish Times, The Financial Times, The New York Post, The Australian, Inspirato, The Guardian and Vogue Living.

www.turtlebunbury.com