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flag / Byrd Antartic Expedition , 1928-1930

Tricolour flag in silk, bearing official stamp of the Byrd Antartic Expedition (1928-1930), which reached the South Pole. Given by a member of the Expedition, Captain Charles John McGuinness, to Mr. Frank Walsh, U.S.A. who sent it to An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera who presented it to the National...

 

photograph / Charles John McGuinness

Photograph of Charles John McGuinness, in Naval uniform. A native of Derry. Author of 'Nomad', and a member of the Byrd Antartic Expedition (1928-1930) and reportedly the only Irishman to hold the U.S. Congress medal for the Expedition. He presented the flag of the Expedition to Frank Walsh (who...