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Edward Bransfield (1785-1852): Forgotten Irish Antarctic Explorer

02/04/2020

Edward Bransfield (1785-1852): Forgotten Irish Antarctic Explorer He was born in the small village of Ballinacurra, near Midleton, Co. Cork. At a young age while on a fishing boat with his father he was press-ganged into the British navy, in need of reinforcements, by the frigate Dryad in 1803. He was brought to the Plymouth naval base from which he served for eleven years on various warships, not seeing Cork again until 1814. His remarkable aptitude as a seaman…

Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) : United Irishmen

09/04/2017

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Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798) : United Irishmen The United Irishmen was a society dedicated originally to the reform of the Irish constitution, including granting the franchise to Catholics, and later to republican revolution. It was founded in Belfast in November 1791 by a small group of young radicals, most of them Protestant, including Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Drennan, Thomas Russell and Samuel McTier. It soon extended to Dublin and remained an active though small part of political life until…