Betty Ashe

Vanishing Ireland by Turtle Bunbury Histories

Jul 16, 202123:08Society & Culture

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 tec...

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