Eleanor Hope Shackleton: more than Ernest's sister
Lecture by Sharon Greene.
Teach Diarmada Community CentreCastledermot
Event Details
- Tue 27 Oct 2015
- 8.00pm
- Cost: €2 - members free
- Venue Details
Teach Diarmada Community Centre
Castledermot
Eleanor was the youngest of the Shackleton children to be born in Kilkea House. She became a nurse in her twenties at the outbreak of the First World War and as her brother headed out on his famous expedition to the South Pole, she became a military nurse, ending up in Salonika.
One of a series of public lectures on the revolutionary decade from 1913 to 1923 with a particular focus on the Easter Rising. Happening on the last Tuesday of each month, at 8 p.m. in Teach Diarmada, Castledermot. Entry 2 euro/members free. More events will be added to the programme over the course of 2016. Organised by Castledermot Local History Group. Grant-aided by Kildare County Council.
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