How Shackleton and his crew of Irish, English, and Scots worked together was a million miles away from the events taking place at the same time in Dublin 1916, writes Patrick G O’Shea of the University of Maryland

The first Irishman to set foot in explorer Ernest Shackleton’s cabin saw a dream come true of watching it arrive in Ireland to become a permanent exhibition.

A remarkable set of rare medals awarded to explorer Ernest Shackleton for his Antarctic expeditions are up for auction.