Unexpected Irish tales
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4.3 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:45.6 | best-selling history magazine. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Ellie Gawthorne. |
| 1:04.0 | Today you'll be hearing some unexpected stories from the history of Ireland, courtesy of the author Turtle Bumberry. Earlier this year, a Turtle published Ireland's forgotten past, a colourful collection |
| 1:10.0 | of 36 lesser-known moments from the |
| 1:12.9 | nation's history. I called him to find out more. Your book is a somewhat whimsical journey |
| 1:19.3 | through 36 snapshots from Irish history. What captured your imagination about these |
| 1:25.2 | stories in particular? Well, I live, where I live now, |
| 1:29.6 | where I'm looking at is the glorious green Irish countryside, sun-dappled today, and I live |
| 1:36.0 | very close to the foot of the Wicklow Mountains. I can see County Wexford where the Normans |
| 1:41.0 | and the Vikings once held power. And I've always been, you always been very fascinated by all the history of the landscape that surrounds me right over, through my window. |
| 1:49.9 | I can see an overgrown ring fort covered in primroses and bluebells. |
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