Interview with Jack McClelland, Long Distance Swimmer

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Interview with Jack McClelland, Long Distance Swimmer

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Location

Crawfordsburn, Helen's Bay

Year

1963

Date

Production 31/07/1963

Length

04min 01sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Jack McClelland was a well-known endurance swimmer and athlete in Northern Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s. He was famous through a number of difficult swimming achievements such as being the first man to swim from Rathlin Island to Ballycastle. In this footage the barrel-chested Jack wades ashore to speak to Jimmy Greene about having just become the first man to swim Galway Bay. Jack was not only a trailblazer swimmer at the time but also a pioneer in promoting the health benefits of veganism. As well as swimming he tried his hand at weight-lifting, wrestling and even turned down a professional football contract with Arsenal.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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