Ernest Shackleton was born on this day, February 15, 1874. The Co Kildare man died in 1922 having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions. When you ask people to name ...

The exhibition, entitled " Shackleton: the Antarctic and Endurance", is being mounted with the co-operation of the James Caird Society ( named after his famous boat) which exists to promote ...

Rescue was still unlikely from here, though, so in the 6.7 metre lifeboat, the James Caird, ill-equipped but packing iron-will determination, Shackleton and five of his crew set off through the ...

The names of Shackleton’s expedition ships, Nimrod and Endurance, are inscribed on the memorial, along with the lifeboat ‘The James Caird’, and the family motto: Fortitudine vincimus ...

Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism! Comic book author and Dundalk native Gavin McCumiskey, has released his fourth graphic novel, titled: 'Shackleton – The Voyage of the James ...