Clodagh Finn: Hark! An overlooked Aladdin’s Cave of festive entertainment

I’ve been sailing the seven seas with Anne Jane Thornton, the Donegal teenager who, almost 200 years ago, dressed as a seaman to cross the Atlantic in search of her lover.

Her journey to the Americas and back again, not to mention her 31 months at sea, were considered “so romantic and so singular” that her contemporaries could scarcely believe it.

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