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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Irish Escape on PBS Tonight
Tonight on PBS (Channel 8 in Houston. Thanks to Brian Leighton
for this info. Jay)
7:00 PM - Secrets of the Dead -- Irish Escape (New)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_irish/index.html
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
It has been called the most outrageous escape story in
the history of the high seas. In 1876, after eight
years of incarceration at Fremantle Prison in Western
Australia, six Irish political prisoners escaped to
America on board the American whaler Catalpa. Under
the pretext of a whaling voyage, the Catalpa and its
unassuming captain, George Smith Anthony, had sailed
from New Bedford to liberate the prisoners. SECRETS OF
THE DEAD tracks down descendents of Anthony and the
prisoners and explores the swashbuckling details of
the dramatic rescue through re-enactments of key
events, including a fierce confrontation between the
Catalpa and the HMS Georgette, the British steamer
that pursued the whaler once the escapees were on
board.
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Joseph O'Connor's new book, Redemption Falls, is loosely based on events that followed this - the Fenians in the American Civil War.
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