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A swarm of worker bees clustering around their queen while they search for a new permanent home. This is a normal part of honey bee reproduction and colony expansion. I took this photo on family land while visiting my parents today.

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Alcock and Brown
Record Breaking Transatlantic Flight
15th of June, 1919

On the 15th of June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made aviation history when their Vickers Vimy biplane landed at Derrigimlagh Bog near Clifden in Connemara, Co. Galway, completing the world’s first non-stop transatlantic flight.

Having departed St. John’s, Newfoundland, the previous afternoon, the pair flew almost 1,900 miles across the Atlantic in just over 16 hours, battling fog, icing and poor visibility.

Mistaking the bog for a suitable field to land, the aircraft became stuck on landing, but neither man was injured. Their plane came down very close to a Marconi signal tower.

Their remarkable achievement marked a major milestone in aviation history and earned them the Daily Mail prize of £10,000, securing their place among the great pioneers of flight.

Two memorials commemorating the flight are sited near the landing spot in Clifden, Co. Galway. The first is an isolated cairn four kilometres south of Clifden on the site of Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station from which the aviators transmitted their success to London, and around 500m (1,600 ft) from the spot where they landed. In addition, there is a sculpture of an aircraft's tail fin on Errislannan Hill 2km north of their landing spot, dedicated on the 40th anniversary of their landing on the 15th of June 1959.

As everyone that has toured with us know, we are huge admirers of the man Tom Crean and his heroic feats.

It is worthy of note that on this day in 1913, the expedition ship Terra Nova returned to Cardiff after the ill fated Terra Nova Expedition. Thousands gathered at the docks to welcome her home, but it was a sombre occasion marked by the loss of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the four men who accompanied him on the final journey to the South Pole.

Contemporary reports described the poignant moment when Tom Crean, holding Scott’s young son Peter after he boarded with his mother Kathleen, turned away with tears in his eyes as the child innocently asked, “Where’s my daddy?” It was a deeply moving scene that revealed the compassionate nature of a man renowned for his courage and resilience.

The remarkable life of Tom Crean is explored in the biography Crean – The Extraordinary Life of an Irish Hero, which uncovers many previously overlooked chapters of his story, from his early naval career through to his later years. Published by Merrion Press⁠, the book is available through bookshops, libraries and online retailers worldwide. The ISBN is 978-1785374562.

The team’s decline on their 800 mile return trek is one of exploration's most famous tragedies.

Petty Officer Edgar “Taff” Evans was the first to die, succumbing to a severe head injury and exhaustion after a fall on February 17, 1912.

Captain Lawrence “Titus” Oates suffered terribly from frostbite and gangrene. In a desperate bid to save his comrades, he walked out of their tent into a blinding blizzard on March 17, 1912, with the famous last words: "I am just going outside and may be some time."

Scott, Chief Scientist Dr. Edward Wilson, and Henry Bowers made it to within just 11 miles of their food cache (One Ton Depot) but were trapped by a severe blizzard. They all died in their tent around March 29, 1912, which is when Scott made his final diary entry.

The search party which included Tom Crean collapsed the tent over them, thus burying them where they lay under a snow cairn topped by a cross made from a pair of skis. Among the items they found and brought back with them were the Kodak film rolls with the photographs taken at the South Pole and geological specimens which later proved the Gondwana theory.

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