Ireland

Polish explorer who saved hundreds of thousands during Great Irish Famine remembered in new exhibition

Paul (Paweł) Strzelecki was born into a Polish noble family in 1797, in what was Prussia at the time. State Library of New South Wales

After climbing and naming Australia’s tallest mountain, adventurer Paweł Strzelecki went to Ireland where, despite suffering from typhoid fever, he set about saving the lives of starving children.

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EXCLUSIVE: “At first I thought he was crazy,” the 36-year-old Irishman’s wife told TFN’s Stuart Dowell who dropped in for a pint and a chat. “But then I thought at least he will be home more often,” she added.

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