Vanishing Ireland

Vanishing Ireland

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Vanishing Ireland episodes

  • Dessie Hynes

    This week, Turtle speaks with 92 year old Dessie Hynes, an independent spirit if there was one. Dessie has enjoyed a fabulous career as an entrepreneur and famously owned O'Donoghues pub in Dublin city during the 1970's and 80's. As a boy, Dessie knew people who were alive during the Great Hunger - Turtle speaks to Dessie about his childhood, his remarkable career and whether Guinness soaked prunes are really something to be encouraged

    Music by Liam Mulvaney

    26 min
  • George Knight

    This week's interview features 76-year-old George Knight about growing up in Clones, County Monaghan, during its last days as a railway boomtown, and how, as a land-locked teenager, he ran off to sea and found himself sailing across the Atlantic, through the Great Lakes of North America and onwards to places like Panama, Casablanca, Beirut and China during the Cultural Revolution.

    Music by Liam Mulvaney

    42 min
  • Betty Ashe

    This week, Turtle speaks with Betty Ashe, an icon of the Dublin Docklands who has spent the past 80 years watching the world around her evolve from the hardship of the Georgian 'Strumpet City' tenements to the global technological hub of the present day. She brings her exceptional energy to the podcast with her memories of 1960s London, the legacy of Padraig Pearse and her vision for the future.

    Music By Liam Mulvaney

    24 min
  • Eddie Lenihan
    This week's interview features 71 year-old folklorist, Eddie Lenihan, who as a young man journeyed around his homeland listening to the voices and tales of men and women, some of whom were born back in the 19thCentury.

    Music by Liam Mulvaney

    31 min
  • Rosemary Smith

    This week's interview features 84-year-old sporting legend Rosemary Smith of Sandyford, Co. Dublin, the most successful female racing car driver in Irish history. Rosemary talks about her motoring triumphs and tribulations, from mastering the pot-hole plenty highways of 1950s Ireland to her dramatic adventures from Afghanistan to Monte Carlo.

    Music by Liam Mulvaney

    50 min
  • Myles Clarke

    On this week's interview, 84-year-old mountain farmer Myles Clarke of Valleymount, County Wicklow, reflects on a time when the Tilley lamp and Horse Power were the essential items of any farm, and how the parish priest saved his life when he was a baby.

    Music by Liam Mulvaney

    25 min
  • Mary Stack

    In this episode, Turtle speaks to 88 year old Mary Stack from Listowel, County Kerry, about living next door to John B. Keane, growing up in Dublin during the Second World War and how a man on a bicycle captured her heart over 70 years ago.

    Music by Liam Mulvaney

    31 min

About Vanishing Ireland

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Turtle Bunbury discusses life and its learnings with Ireland's elders. These are voices of courage, kindness and humour that will resound for future generations. The Vanishing Ireland project was co-founded by Turtle and photographer James Fennell in 2001.