The Irishman determined to expose the slave trade
Extraordinary Emigrant: James Field Stanfield saw a ‘floating dungeon’ filled with ‘howlings of despair’ as part of a crew charged with taking more than 200 Africans to Jamaica. He quit
Extraordinary Emigrants
The Irish nun who became the ‘Angel of AA’
Extraordinary Emigrants: Sr Ignatia recognised that alcoholism was not something to be cured and sought for hospital care to be made more widely available
The adventurous Irishman who introduced the potato to Greece
Extraordinary Emigrants: William Bennet Stevenson triumphed in his efforts to rescue the population from starvation
‘Paddy the rebel’: The wily Irishwoman who parachuted into Nazi-held France
Extraordinary Emigrants: Maureen O’Sullivan was a tenacious British agent. She returned to Ireland in the 1970s, but her time here didn’t end happily
From Wexford MP to premier of Victoria: The Irishman who made a mark on two continents
Charles Gavan Duffy moved to Australia when he got fed up with politics in Ireland
Down with the Statue of Liberty: The roaming Irish agitator who protested from a cattle barge
Marguerite Moore said being imprisoned was the highest honour the English government could bestow on an Irishwoman. Then she took her activism to the US
The Irishman who became known as the father of the Australian novel
Extraordinary Emigrants: Joseph Furphy was an optimistic who wrote long entertaining letters to his mother
The Mayo woman who became Italy’s favourite operatic diva
The opera singer refused the title of Papal Countess from Pope Pius XI anxious not to forget her humble roots as ‘Peggy of Mayo’
Musical prodigy Arthur Sullivan and the curse of popularity
The composer, whose parents were both Irish, is still remembered today in shows like The Simpsons
The Irishman who rose to the very top of the Spanish royal court
The son of a displaced Irish Jacobites family from Co Limerick became the prime minister of Spain
The ‘Xcentric’ Carlow physicist who discovered why the sky is blue
Extraordinary Emigrants: John Tyndall’s inventions also led to modern fibre optics, respirators, and fog horns
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