Committee member Michael Smith, author of many books on polar history, including An Unsung Hero (about Tom Crean), will give a talk on Ireland’s Antarctic explorers, including Edward Bransfield.
Committee member Michael Smith, author of many books on polar history, including An Unsung Hero (about Tom Crean), will give a talk on Ireland’s Antarctic explorers, including Edward Bransfield.
On the 28th March 2019 in O’Meara’s Bar in Ballinacurra we will be having the world premier screening of the short documentary we made with film maker Tony Whelan of Canola Pictures.
21nd February 2019 – A talk entitled ‘Remembering Edward Bransfield’ by committee members Liam O’Riordan and Jim Wilson in the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork. Here is a link to a report by Mary O’Connor in the Great Island Community News. http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/talks-and-learning/remembering-edward-bransfield
A piece by Irish Examiner reporter Sean O’Riordan on the moving of the monument stone to Matt Thompson’s studio.
2nd February 2019 – A special one-off performance of the award winning one-man play Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer by Aidan Dooley at Aghada Community Hall at 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/755552438171072/
January 20th – Committee member and Polar Historian Michael Smith writes about Edward Bransfield in the History Ireland magazine January/Februay 2019 issue. Read It Here
A piece by Irish Examiner reporter Sean O’Riordan on the Bransfield Commemorative Tartan, specially designed and made by Gael Mueller from California.
Click HERE to listen.
A piece written by committee member Michael Smith entitled ‘The first Sighting of Antarctica – Bransfield or Bellingshausen? See it here