The author of The Glorious Madness: Tales of the Irish and the Great War and Easter Dawn: The 1916 Rising has scored again with his latest book 1847: A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity and Savagery in which he focuses on the historical events of a single year, 1847 – a revolutionary year that, in Turtle’s own words, ‘turned the world upside down’. In this globetrotting history he addresses everything from the trauma and horror of the Great Famine, to the showmanship of Lola Montez and Tom Thumb.
