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 ...

To mark 100 years since the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton ... from the South Georgia Museum. Shackleton rose to fame in 1915 when his vessel, the Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and ...