Two songs from Rude Awakening by Andy Irvine

Rude Awakening; In the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17, Shackleton famously led all his own party to safety, but Victor Hayward and Aenas McIntosh, two members of the Ross Sea party, lost their lives crossing the sea-ice from Hut Point to Cape Evans.

Douglas Mawson; Douglas Mawson had been a member of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition in 1907/08 and was drawn back to the Antarctic in 1911 at the head of his own expedition. His epic and tragic Antarctic journey has been referred to as probably the greatest story of lone survival in Polar exploration.

Joe Dolan from Galway wrote a song about Shackleton's arrival in Stromness, the whaling base in South Georgia; My Name is Shackleton. It was recorded by the Planxty of 1983 with Andy Irvine, Arty McGlynn, Dolores Keane, James Kelly, Bill Whelan and Liam O'Flynn.

Irish band The Difference Engine released their debut single 'Elephant Island' on February 15 2011, to mark Ernest Shackleton's birthday.

Seamus Eagan of Solas wrote the banjo tune "Vital Mental Medicine," inspired by the book The Endurance, Caroline Alexander's chronicle of explorer Ernest Shackleton.

From youtube; posted by AusRadioHistorian Jan 23, 2016

SCOTT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION MEMORIAL RECORD, 1913; ??Tis A Story That Will Live Forever? ? the memorial song composed by Paul Pelham and Lawrence Wright, after the news of Scott?s death had reached the world, early in 1913. This version, featuring the robust baritone voice of the prolific recording artist Stanley Kirkby, from about April 1913, was released on the British Edison-Bell label.