In the run-up to Halloween, we could resist this true-life horror tale of Alexander Pearce, an Irish convict in Australia turned cannibal. In 1819, Alexander Pearce, an Irishman born in 1790 ...

Maybe that’s why the astounding story that pours forth from Alexander Stille’s ... “The Conditions of Human Growth,” a book co-authored by Newton and Pearce in 1963, suggested especially ...

The Pearce story made its way into Fulton's life when he was filming a commercial in County Monaghan in Ireland and was handed a copy of Dan Sprod's book Alexander Pearce: Bushranger, Convict and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Few stories in Australian history are as compelling and morally confronting as Alexander Pearce's. In 1822 the Irish shoe thief ...

Not much is known about Alexander Pearce’s early life. He was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1790 and worked as a farm labourer. According to Pearce’s convict records, he was 5 ft 3 ...

Show more Drama based on the true story of a prisoner, Alexander Pearce, who escaped from a British penal colony in Australia. Having been sent down under for stealing shoes, he masterminds an ...

A FILM about Tasmania's cannibal convict Alexander Pearce has caused some audience members to vomit. The Mercury reports Van Diemen's Land follows Pearce's 1822 escape from the penal settlement on ...