This week's famous Irishman is Turlough Carolan. Turlough Carolan (1670 – 1738) was a blind, itinerant early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. He was the last great Irish harper-composer and is considered by many to be Ireland's national composer.
This week's famous Irishman is Ernest Shackleton. Ernest Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
