Tom Crean - Arctic Explorer

Decster said:
John Wayne was an actor pretending to be an all american hero (of sorts)....

Tom Crean never pretended nothing. He was.
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I'm sorry but years ago when I went to the pictures [not the cinema and definitely not the movies] as a small boy John Wayne was real to me. Don't go messing up the inside of my head and rearranging my prejudices with unwanted facts - especially facts that are true. Have I made myself clear young man? :handbag :rob


PS I really want to get back to the man from Annascaul; Tom the Pole they called him when he retired there. There's a lot more Poles there today but sin e sceal eile. He was the greatest :bow - go see that show.
 
GerryC said:
I'm sorry but years ago when I went to the pictures [not the cinema and definitely not the movies] as a small boy John Wayne was real to me. Don't go messing up the inside of my head and rearranging my prejudices with unwanted facts - especially facts that are true. Have I made myself clear young man? :handbag :rob


PS I really want to get back to the man from Annascaul; Tom the Pole they called him when he retired there. There's a lot more Poles there today but sin e sceal eile. He was the greatest :bow - go see that show.
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Right so i wont set you to rights on yer John Wayne fantasies:ymca

but have you read this;

http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Crean-Shackleton-Antarctic-Expeditions/dp/089886870X


Great book, if a little bit sycophantic...but hard not to be when you consider what the man did. He would have been knighted even he was from across the water or given his own ship if he stayed in the royal navy.
 
Padge said:
Has anyone seen the Tom Crean one man live show.
Is it worth going?

Planning to get tickets as christmas presents but not sure if I'll be loved or hated for the gesture..
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paul it,s absolutely great :clap get the tickets an keep em for yer self, glad ya gave the heads up i,ll go again me self :aidan
 
Decster said:
but have you read this;
http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Crean-Shackleton-Antarctic-Expeditions/dp/089886870X
Great book, if a little bit sycophantic...but hard not to be when you consider what the man did. He would have been knighted even he was from across the water or given his own ship if he stayed in the royal navy.
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Was at the book launch in Tralee many years ago and have a copy signed by the author and better still by Tom Crean's daughter.
Read from cover to cover and frequently fondled.

Better still [while I'm boasting]; I traversed South Georgia in the footsteps of the great man in Nov 2006 and also visited Elephant Island - a pilgrimage.

It all started for me in 1975, lived on the east coast and did a motor bike to Kerry. Passed trough Annascaul and was confronted with the South Pole Inn. A seed was sown; he was not famous then.

He became famous 60 years after he died....only in Ireland
 
Jees, almost 2 years since I originally posted this and I never actually got to see the show.
If it makes it to Dublin I'll definitely make it...(Aidan, you can get out your Handbag and gladrags and we'll make it a date)..


Oi Decster...You're preaching to the converted with Gerry...He's holding all the good cards in the game of Tom Crean Top-Trumps :aidan
 
Hi Padg
hope you get to see the play eventually , I saw it last time it was in the P.R.C. And realy enjoyed it.I was delighted to see alot of students some as young as 12 years old,just as intrigued as I was with the story ,and thought how lucky they were to see somthing so well done as that monologue (also student prices available at the Cork theatre)
take care
Jim
 
Recommended book-some of you might have it already-Seek the Frozen lands,Irish polar explorers 1740-1922,author Frank Nugent. Tom Crean features in it,everyone in Ireland north and south should know about this man and his exploits,puts all the stories and films based on fiction in the shade.

Also for those that are not aware Scott's ship the Discovery (in which Crean was a crew member) is docked and open to the public in Dundee-well worth a visit.
 
I have been very lucky in my life to and live work in South Georgia on three occasions in -25c it must have been f***** hard work to cross it to seek rescue,would love to see the show
 
Padge said:
If it makes it to Dublin I'll definitely make it...(Aidan, you can get out your Handbag and gladrags and we'll make it a date)..
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You're on big lad, a date it is. :kissy2

Just so long as it's not on a school night. :rob
 
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There was a very good exhibition from the Shackelton Expeditions to the South Pole in Collins Barracks Museum a few years ago.

They had the small life boat(or equivalent), that they rowed to the various small islands before they eventually got help, in a room with great projections of the south atlantic around it and as you stood there it gave a very small idea of what they went through, the noise of the sea was fantastic in that semi dark room watching as the waves rise and then fall......
 
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