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THE inspiring story of perhaps Ireland’s greatest ever adventurer ‘Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer’ is set to play out on the stage of the Ballymaloe Grainstore for one performance on Thursday, August 31.
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In the years before the Kerryman forged his reputation on the coldest, most inhospitable place on earth, he left his footprints in the sun-drenched climes of Hawaii, Tahiti and Acapulco
Chris Moss remembers the endeavours and eccentricities of early 20th-century explorers 12 January 2021 • 1:33pm Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and meteorologist Charles Wright in the entrance to an ice grotto during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition Credit: Getty The Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration dates from the International Geographical Congress held in London in 1895, which issued the following resolution: “That this congress record its opinion that the exploration of the Antarctic Regions is the greatest piece of geographical exploration still to be undertaken...