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    Catalpa Documentary

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwMqCVvO0I]YouTube - FENIANS THE CATALPA RESCUE PART ONE OF SIX[/ame]

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjkfxAxmPoM&feature=related]YouTube - FENIANS THE CATALPA RESCUE PART TWO OF SIX[/ame]

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwuHJmyzVOc&feature=related]YouTube - FENIANS THE CATALPA RESCUE PART THREE OF SIX[/ame]

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HJEeBFR09E&feature=related]YouTube - FENIANS THE CATALPA RESCUE PART FOUR OF SIX[/ame]

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iGa-ImO1qE&feature=related]YouTube - FENIANS THE CATALPA RESCUE PART FIVE OF SIX[/ame]

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn1YhpPMJVc&feature=related]YouTube - FENIANS THE CATALPA RESCUE PART SIX OF SIX[/ame]


    The Catalpa Rescue tells the story of one of the greatest prison escapes in history. In 1876 a team of exiled Irish Fenians set out from the tiny whaling port town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to rescue six of their Fenian brothers from one of the most hostile and remote prisons on earth - Fremantle, Western Australia. A task which took nearly two years to accomplish and required the financial assistance of over 7,000 Irish Americans, to eventually pull off the greatest propaganda coup in Fenian history. It shows the extent of loyality the fenians had for one another.

    An absolutely brilliant documentary of the Catalpa rescue. Well worth viewing.

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    What next the David Cocharane Snoozeathon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by odie1kanobe View Post
    What next the David Cocharane Snoozeathon?
    Its in the history forum, all comment and discussion welcome.

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    Saw it on TG4, I think it was, last year and it is well worth a watch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jdaly View Post
    Saw it on TG4, I think it was, last year and it is well worth a watch.
    It was on RTE1, I was out of the country at the time and scoured the net for it. Sometimes RTE can produce some absolute gems, this is one of them.

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    Oh....

    For one strange and bizarre moment I thought

    - but never mind.

    Nonetheless a very well put together documentry on a brilliant rescue.
    Europa Conventus Delenda Est

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