Irish Prisoners’ Great Escape from Australia
Friday, June 6th, 2008
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. Watch the full episode of Secrets of the Dead: Irish Escape.
Click here for more: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/zhomepage/irish-escape
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