Martyn Turner (1948-) is an English-born political cartoonist, caricaturist and writer. His cartoons appear daily in The Irish Times parodying current events. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... A cartoonist at work. ... A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Logo of The Irish Times The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ...

Turner was born in Wanstead, Essex and grew up in London. In 1967, he went to Belfast and enrolled at Queen's University Belfast where he read geography. Turner was the first member of his family to go to university. Returning to London for during his first Christmas break from college, he learned that one of his grandmothers was born on the Falls Road in Belfast. Wanstead is a place in the London Borough of Redbridge. ... Essex is an administrative county in the East of England. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is the second-largest city in Ireland. ... The Queens University of Belfast Queens University, Belfast (QUB) - or officially The Queens University of Belfast - is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... The Falls Road is a main road through West Belfast; from Divis Street in the city centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. ...

Living in Belfast exposed Turner to the sectarianism of the city and he experienced the initial years of the Troubles and Northern Ireland politics have dominated his work to this day. Sectarianism (or sectism) is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ...

Around 1970, he began drawing professionally for the Sunday News. Upon graduation, he joined joined the Belfast current affairs magazine Fortnight where he became editor. In 1976, he was made political cartoonist at the Irish Times.

The Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate distribute some of Turner's cartoons to over 200 journals and newspapers round the world.

1997, commentator of the Year, Irish Media Awards

2001, European Political Cartoonist of the Year, Forte dei Marmi.

In 1998, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Ulster and in 2001 another by Queens University. Turner lives in County Kildare with his wife. He has one son. County Kildare (Irish: Cill Dara) is an Irish county located to the southwest of Dublin in the province of Leinster. ...

Cartoon by Martyn Turner on the elections in Iraq. Copyright Martyn Turner 2004.

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Publications

Solo works

• Martyn Turner's Greatest Hits (Gill & Macmillan - October 28, 2003) ISBN 071713573X
• Railings (Blackstaff Press - October, 2000) ISBN 0856406872
• The Golfer's Guide to World History (Blackstaff Press - November, 1999) ISBN 0856406635
• Brace Yourself, Bridge It! (Blackstaff Press - October, 1998) ISBN 0856406392
• The Noble Art of Politics (Blackstaff Press - October, 1996) ISBN 0856405833
• Pack Up Your Troubles (Blackstaff Press - September, 1995) ISBN 0856405698
• The Odd Couple (Irish Times Books - November, 1994) ISBN 0907011217
• Politics et al (Irish Times Books - 1992) ISBN B0000COI18
• The Long Goodbye: A cartoon tribute to a Taoiseach (Irish Times Books - 1992) ISBN 0907011195
• The Man Who Won the Tour De France (Gill & Macmillan - October 31, 1991) ISBN 0717119165
• Heavy Weather (Gill & Macmillan - December 31, 1989) ISBN 0717116999
• Fistful of Dáilers (Gill & Macmillan - October 20, 1987) ISBN 0717115518'Illuminations' (Boethius Press 1986)
• Martyn Turner: The book (rish Times Books - 1983) ISBN 0907011101

The Taoiseach (plural: Taoisigh) or, more formally, An Taoiseach, is the head of government of the Republic of Ireland and the leader of the Irish cabinet1. ... Dáil Éireann[1] is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland. ...

Collaborative works

• Thin Black Lines Rides Again -- Colm Regan, Scott Sinclair, Martyn Turner (TIDE - June, 1994) ISBN 0948838302
• Cattle Rustling: A Retelling of the Táin -- James Simmons, Martyn Turner (Fortnight Educational - December, 1991) ISBN 0950908134

The Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. ...

External links

• Martyn Turner in The Irish Times