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Irish Escape
Posted: June 4th, 2008
Irish Escape revisits the story of what has been called the most outrageous escape story in the history of the high seas. In 1876, after 8 years of incarceration in Western Australia, 6 Irish political prisoners escaped on board the American whaler Catalpa. Under the pretext of a whaling voyage, the Catalpa and its unassuming captain had sailed from New Bedford to liberate the prisoners. |
[…] of the Dead: Irish Escape In 1876, after 8 years of incarceration in Western Australia, 6 Irish political prisoners escaped […]
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Read a brief timeline of the events and related Irish history leading up to Irish independence.
Learn about the revolutionaries are arrested in 1866, to Fremantle Prison, the most remote and notorious jail in the British Empire, to the United States, where their ultimate taste of liberty is bittersweet.
In 1876, after 8 years of incarceration in Western Australia, 6 Irish political prisoners escaped on board the American whaler Catalpa.
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