Celebrating Ireland’s Great Explorers | Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Henry Shackleton – one of the great figures of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration – was born on the 15th February 1874 in…
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Poems from the coast | Edward Bransfield by Daniel Wade
In his series of maritime inspired poems by the talented Dublin poet Daniel Wade, the story of Edward Bransfield, a Cork-born sailing master…
Know the story of Antarctic legend Tom Crean?
On the 28th of February 1877 in Annascaul Co. Kerry, Tom Crean was born. Seaman, Antarctic Explorer, Publican, and a man who literally travelled to…