Irish Legends

JessePinkman · 02-10-2012 10:42AM #1

Tom Crean, nicknamed the "Irish Giant" (20 July 1877 - 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer from County Kerry. He was a member of three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

I've only recently been made aware of this guy,He truly is an Irish hero,Shame guys like this go under the radar and are not as celebrated as others.

So who else is an unsung Irish hero?

Birneybau · 02-10-2012 10:44AM

You mean, Tom Crean, the guy that had a play written about him etc.?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 02-10-2012 10:44AM

what's a play?

stmol32 · 02-10-2012 10:45AM

I wouldn't say he's unsung I thought he was quite well known. He even featured in a guiness ad and a few threads on boards.ie

Ghandee · 02-10-2012 10:45AM

The lad who slipped and bate his head of the pavement on the ice on the RTE news report a few years ago.

He took one for the team that day.

fishy fishy · 02-10-2012 10:45AM

JessePinkman wrote: »

Tom Crean, nicknamed the "Irish Giant" (20 July 1877 - 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer from County Kerry. He was a member of three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

I've only recently been made aware of this guy,He truly is an Irish hero,Shame guys like this go under the MY radar and are not as celebrated as others.

So who else is an unsung Irish hero?

your radar and everyone else's are two different things

:D

gobnaitolunacy · 02-10-2012 10:46AM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

what's a play?

A live-action youtube clip.

RikkFlair · 02-10-2012 10:47AM

JessePinkman wrote: »

Tom Crean, nicknamed the "Irish Giant" (20 July 1877 - 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer from County Kerry. He was a member of three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

I've only recently been made aware of this guy,He truly is an Irish hero,Shame guys like this go under the radar and are not as celebrated as others.

So who else is an unsung Irish hero?

Just read that Unsung Hero book. Now that is what you call a hard man.

JohnMarston · 02-10-2012 10:47AM

If you're a reader, i'd recommend the book 'An unsung hero' , all about his role in the antartic expedition. Some of the stuff he did and was a part of is incredible

Duckworth_Luas · 02-10-2012 10:48AM

Charlie Bird.

A man who retraced Tom Crean's "footsteps" by flying to the South Pole!

who what when · 02-10-2012 10:50AM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Charlie Bird.

A man who retraced Tom Crean's "footsteps" by flying to the South Pole!

And mating with a sealion!

RikkFlair · 02-10-2012 10:51AM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Charlie Bird.

A man who retraced Tom Crean's "footsteps" by flying to the South Pole!

And got molested by an elephant seal

Pompey Magnus · 02-10-2012 11:10AM

JessePinkman wrote: »

Tom Crean, nicknamed the "Irish Giant" (20 July 1877 - 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer from County Kerry. He was a member of three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

I've only recently been made aware of this guy,He truly is an Irish hero,Shame guys like this go under the radar and are not as celebrated as others.

So who else is an unsung Irish hero?

To be fair he did get plenty of recognition for his contribution to the Empire during his lifetime so it isn't the case that he really was an "unsung hero".

Prop Joe · 02-10-2012 11:11AM

Arthur Guinness is an unsung Irish hero.We should have a day in celebration of him and the Italian company which now owns his name......................Oh Wait

admiralofthefleet · 02-10-2012 11:13AM

I was in Annascaul recently, they could do a lot more to commemorate the guy

RikkFlair · 02-10-2012 11:16AM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

I was in Annascaul recently, they could do a lot more to commemorate the guy

Theres a room dedicated to him in the museum in Tralee, though I haven't been in it to see what its like

ejmaztec · 02-10-2012 11:17AM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Charlie Bird.

A man who retraced Tom Crean's "footsteps" by flying to the South Pole!

That's birds flying south for the winter for you.

Ash.J.Williams · 02-10-2012 11:19AM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Charlie Bird.

A man who retraced Tom Crean's "footsteps" by flying to the South Pole!

"when I look out of the window of the captains quarters on this Naval vessel, I wonder what it must have felt like to be Tom Crean approaching the ice continent"

gobnaitolunacy · 02-10-2012 11:20AM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

"when I look out of the window of the captains quarters on this Naval vessel, I wonder what it must have felt like to be Tom Crean approaching the ice continent"

Fcukin' cold I would imagine.

Ash.J.Williams · 02-10-2012 11:20AM

Tom Crean was unheard of for many years in ireland because he joined the Royal Navy, and we're a bunch of c*nts.

Funglegunk · 02-10-2012 11:26AM

Prop Joe wrote: »

Arthur Guinness is an unsung Irish hero.We should have a day in celebration of him and the Italian company which now owns his name......................Oh Wait

Diageo aren't Italian, they're British. Their name was invented by a marketing company, which is even more depressing.

bluecode · 02-10-2012 11:27AM

His boss Ernest Shackleton was Irish too. That has only really been highlighted in this country in recent years due to our tendency to ignore Irish people who did amazing things while working for the British before independence. Our history is very badly distorted by it's over emphasis on fighting the British.