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SS Catalpa Music and Publication Information

Captain George Smith Anthony
Captain George Smith Anthony

The Music used during the podcast episode “George Smith Anthony and the Voyage of the Catalpa” came from the Group “Slainte” from their album of the same name.

Slainte

The tracks used were “Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy”, “Star of the County Down”, and “Gander in the Pratie Hole”, permissible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

The License

Peter F. Stevens book “The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels Escape to Freedom” is one of the few books available on this topic.The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels’ Escape to Freedom

Smithsonian Magazine’s Article on the Catalpa can be accessed here: The Most Audacious Australian Prison Break of 1876

The PBS Secrets of the Dead episode is here:

Irish Escape: The Freemantle Six