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com	TITANIC HONORS IRISH WITH PHOTOS The Titanic Branson Museum Attraction is spending all of March celebrating Irish passengers who boarded the ship 100 years ago. March is Irish Month at the museum, with music and storytelling highlighting the ship’s history. “We pay tribute to passengers who were Irish,” owner Mary Kellogg said. “The museum’s philosophy is to share stories of passengers.” She said there were 173 Irish people aboard the ship, with the most important Irish passenger being a priest, the Rev. Francis Browne....	13th March 2012
	IRISH TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Irish Titanic Historical Society (ITHS) was founded in 1988 in Dublin and from small beginnings it now has an international membership of about 200. The main interests are The Titanic and the Irish Passengers who boarded at Queenstown. The Lusitania, which sank off the coast of Kinsale and general maritime history. ...
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THE IRISH ROVERS RELEASE TITANIC TRIBUTE SONG The Irish Rovers, a Canadian Irish folk group, are releasing their fortieth album which includes a song that pays tribute to the Titanic, a ship that was built in their homeland, a century ago....	22nd February 2012
Joplin Independent	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTION HOSTS IRISH FESTIVAL The Titanic Museum Attraction is hosting an Irish Festival on March 1-16, 2007 to honor the Irish passengers aboard the ill-fated luxury liner. ...	5th March 2007
Irish Central	100 IRISH ON BOARD FOR THE TITANICS MEMORIAL CRUISE - SEE VIDEO More than 100 Irish have signed up to the cruise which will commemorate the Titanic. The cruise will follow the exact fateful route that the Belfast-built Titanic took 100 years ago....	1st September 2010
irishtimes.com	TREASURE HUNTERS SAY IRISH WATERS HAVE VALUABLE WRECKS THE US marine exploration company which has located a British wartime shipwreck with £150 million worth of silver in the Atlantic has also been surveying southwest Irish waters where there are a number of "commodity" wrecks. The Naval Service has confirmed that it notified the company's research ship Odyssey Explorer some weeks ago that it should notify the Irish authorities of its activities. It said the Naval Service came across the vessel surveying some 25 miles west of the Blasket islands, in Co Kerry on August 2nd. Under international law, a ship undertaking scientific research should inform the relevant state, and should be licensed to tow a sidescan sonar in territorial waters....	28th September 2011
Coventry Standard	IRISH PRIESTS LOST Newspaper article...	26th April 1912
irishtimes.com	POIGNANT MEMENTO: FAMILY DIED IN 'TITANIC' DISASTER - IRISH TIMES A REMARKABLE photograph of a widowed Irish mother and her five young sons who perished in the Titanic disaster is to be sold at auction next month. Margaret Rice (39), a widow, and her sons Albert (10), George (8), Eric (7), Arthur (4) and Eugene (2), who lived in Athlone, Co Westmeath, all died when the infamous ship sank in the north Atlantic in April 1912....	21st November 2011
	NORA FLEMING PHOTOGRAPH Photograph of Irish steerage passenger Nora Fleming, one of 14 third class passengers from the village of Addergoole, Co Mayo, who boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. It was Nora's 22nd birthday on the night the vessel struck ...
Realscreen	ZDF ENTERPRISES TAKES ON TITANIC DOCUMENTARY International distributor ZDF Enterprises is coproducing a €1.6 million doc on the men below the Titanic’s deck with Irish prodco Tile Films and Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion....	17th May 2011
	DOROTHY GIBSON: STAR STYLE Model and actress Dorothy Gibson and her mother, Pauline C. Gibson, filed suit against the White Star Line for recovery of property they lost on Titanic. Their damage claims were fairly modest, compared to other female petitioners, amounting to $2,38...	31st January 1913
	TITANIC'S LAST STOP, COBH Titanic Stories Michael Martin, creator of ‘The Titanic Trail’ takes us on a tour of Cobh, the Titanic’s last port of call. He sets the scene of the day that Titanic left the Ireland, taking in the White Star Line Of...	29th October 2011
New York Times	IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com...	8th March 1907
	AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 276. (Irish). Unmarried woman, 23 years old, coming to live with her sister in New Jersey, was severely injured. ($50)....	1913
Irish Independent	IRISH TITANIC LETTER UP FOR AUCTION A LETTER on ship's stationery, written by Ireland's only first-class passenger on the Titanic, is expected to fetch more than €50,000 when it is auctioned next month....	21st August 2006
	DAVID CHARTERS Irish steerage passenger David Charters on a horse with a white star....	1909
The Mayo News	'TITANIC' SAILS FOR BALLINROBE BALLINROBE Musical Society are preparing to take on their biggest challenge to date, with the staging of the Irish premiere of the epic musical ¢€ËœTitanic' this February....	3rd October 2007
Sunday Independent	SUFFERERS BOTH Hibernia and Columbia United in Grief...	21st April 1912
Irish Central	IRISH PLAN FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC Ireland will be at the epicenter of the Titanic commemorations set for 2012, the 100th anniversary of the loss of the massive ocean liner....	10th April 2010
	EUGENE DALY WITH PIPES, 1910 Eugene Daly as a member of the Irish National Foresters band, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, 1910. Contributor's collection. ...
Irish Independent	TITANIC'S LAST PORT OF CALL HONOURS VICTIMS THE 97TH anniversary of the sinking of the legendary liner Titanic will be commemorated at a special ceremony in the Irish town that was the doomed ship's last port of call....	11th April 2009
Tampabay.com	THIS MOLLY IS STILL UNSINKABLE Long before Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin was born, a gal from Missouri was shattering glass ceilings of her own.Molly Brown, the child of Irish immigrants, married a lucky gold prospector in 1886 and came into money. But it was her unlikely survival of the Titanic disaster in 1912 that made her famous....	30th September 2008
	COBH MEMORIAL Memorial to all Irish emigrants at Cobh (formerly Queenstown), the memorial is accompanied by a plaque to those that lost their lives in the Titanic disaster....
	ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE Date of Birth: April 1890 Place of Birth Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po...
	ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR William McCarthy handicraft...
The New York Irish Emgirant	IRISH TITANIC VICTIM TO BE GIVEN MEMORIAL HEADSTONE Of the 1,513 people who perished in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, only 330 bodies were recovered for burial. The rest, victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic, either plunged to the ocean floor with the doomed vessel or simply floated south, away from the reaches of recovery ships....	14th April 2010
The New York Irish Emgirant	IRISH TITANIC VICTIM TO BE GIVEN MEMORIAL HEADSTONE Of the 1,513 people who perished in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, only 330 bodies were recovered for burial. The rest, victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic, either plunged to the ocean floor with the doomed vessel or simply floated south, away from the reaches of recovery ships....	14th April 2010
	ADDERGOOLE PARISH 2008 This view of Addergoole Parish Co Mayo Irish Republic, where fourteen steerage passengers left for RMS Titanic, was taken in May 2008 fro...
	AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 378. (Irish). A housemaid, 26 years of age, returning from a visit to Ireland, was lost, leaving dependent parents in Ireland. This Committee refunded to a brother in New York $50 of the money advanced to his sister for passage, which he ...	1913
Whittier Daily News	TAKE A TRIP ON THE TITANIC Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents. As a girl, she went to live in England; as a young woman, she went to sea (in 1908) as an ocean-liner stewardess. Not only did she serve on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but after surviving the horror of that tragedy, she was serving on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when, during World War I, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank....	28th February 2010
iftn.ie	'SAVING THE TITANIC' DOCU-DRAMA WILL AIR APRIL 2012 The Irish-German ‘Saving the Titanic’ co-production will begin filming this month in Kempton Steam Museum, London and Ardmore Studios. Directed by Maurice Sweeney and produced by Tile Films’ Stephen Rooke, the 1x90/2x52 minute feature will be broadcast on RTÉ in April 2012. ...	10th August 2011
irishtimes.com	COBH CEREMONY HONOURS VICTIMS OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES A COMMEMORATION of the victims of the Titanic's sinking was held in Cobh yesterday, one day short of 99 years after the liner called to the Cork town on her ill-fated voyage from Southampton to New York. On Thursday, April 11th, 1912, 123 steerage ......	11th April 2011
The Ann Arbor News	GAELIC STORM OF 'TITANIC' FAME AT THE ARK Gaelic Storm, at The Ark tonight, can thank a movie about a famous shipwreck for providing a stepping stone to fame. Remember the lively Irish band that played for the steerage passengers in the 1997 movie "Titanic?'' That was Gaelic Storm....	3rd August 2007
Manchester Evening News	DIVE TO TITANIC'S RESCUE SHIP A SALFORD fireman has led the world's first successful dive to the wreck of a ship which steamed to the rescue of the Titanic.A 10-strong amateur dive team led by Ric Waring entered the record books by reaching the wreck and then salvaged artefacts from RMS Carpathia, which sits on the bottom of the north Atlantic some 500ft below the surface, 200 miles from the Irish coast....	19th September 2007
MKKZ	UNTITLED 'In the Titanic were two Catholic priests: Professor Byles, an Irish man [sic], who wanted to act in the marriage of his brother and his bride and a German monk (Padre). They helped women and children, climbing into the boats. The people on the last ...	12th April 1987
	SHRINE TO THOMAS KILGANNON Including a lock of hair...
Irish Independent	COBH JOINS IN PLANS FOR TITANIC CENTENARY AN Irish town is to play a major role in the 100th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic. Titanic left Belfast's renowned shipyard in 1912 hailed as the new wonder of the world. It was the largest and most luxurious ship at that time, and Cobh in Co Cork was the liner's last port of call before its fatal voyage. A total of 1,513 people died when the ship hit an iceberg off Newfoundland in April 1912....	15th August 2007
irishtimes.com	AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY Maybe it's time for another attempt to clear up one of the last remaining mysteries of the Titanic, the true identity of the passenger known as 'John Horgan', who for 99 years has been as silent as the depths into which the ship sunk. It is of course a common Irish name. And that a person so christened held a passenger ticket (Third class, No. 370377) for the doomed vessel is beyond doubt. So is the fact that somebody used that ticket to embark from Queenstown on the fateful day....	14th May 2011
irishtimes.com	TITANIC FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH FETCHES €2200 AT AUCTION - IRISH TIMES A PHOTOGRAPH of a Co Westmeath woman and her five sons who perished in the Titanic disaster was sold at auction in Dublin yesterday for €2,200. Margaret Rice (39), a widow, and her sons Albert (10), George (8), Eric (7), Arthur (4) and Eugene (2), from Athlone, all died when the ship sank on April 15th, 1912. The photograph was sold by two of her descendants and was bought by a telephone bidder....	15th December 2011
New Mexican	BEMIS: LATEST LUSITANIA EXPEDITION WAS 'VERY USEFUL' Gregg Bemis arrived home to Santa Fe on Thursday night after spending two weeks off the southern coast of Ireland, where he explored the ruins of a ship sunk in the prelude to World War I. Bemis, a 79-year-old venture capitalist, estimated he has taken 30 trips to the area since he became interested in the Lusitania in 1969. In 1982, he became the sole owner of the wreck 300 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean, about 12 miles south of County Cork in Irish territorial waters. ...	14th August 2011
eturbonews.com	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTIONS GIVING AWAY 12 'BACK TO TITANIC' TRIPS TO BELFAST To commemorate Titanic’s Irish heritage, Titanic Museum Attractions in Branson, Mo. and Pigeon Forge, Tenn. will give away six 11-day trips for two to Belfast beginning today. The 12 winners of the “Back to Titanic 100th Year ‘Tour Ireland’ Sweepstakes” will go to Belfast where they will visit the birthplace of the world’s best-known, most luxurious ocean liner. ...	14th June 2011
Newark Evening News	LOST FATHER IN SHIP; HAS MENTAL COLLAPSE JERSEY CITY, April 19---The police found it necessary yesterday to take care of Frederick Myles, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., is among the lost passengers of the Titanic. Young Miles appeared to be under s...	19th April 1912
irishtimes.com	FLARES AND GUN SALUTE IN CORK PAY TRIBUTE TO LOST LIVES OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES ONE HUNDRED and twenty-three flares were released from Spike Island in Co Cork to commemorate the individuals who boarded the ill-fated Titanic from nearby Cobh on April 11th, 1912. When the Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic four days later, it sank with the loss of over 1,500 lives, including 79 of those who boarded in Cobh. Among those who died was a Cobh native, able seaman Lionel Leonard, who travelled as a third-class passenger....	2nd January 2012
4ni.co.uk	WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory....	26th September 2011
Branson Courier	TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction....	9th March 2009
Newark Evening News	PRIEST GIVES AWAY A LIFEBELT OFFERED HIM Special Service of the NEWS WHIPPANY, April 23---More about the heroism of Rev. Thomas R. Byles, of England, who lost his life on the Titanic, was told yesterday by his brother William, of Brooklyn, who was a guest of Father Clifford, ...	23rd April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS newspaper cutting...	25th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ...	12th July 2006
drogheda-independent.ie	SLANE MAN WHO SURVIVED THE TITANIC SINKING A SLANE man survived the sinking of the Titanic, simply because he was only one of four Irish First Class passengers. James Robert Mcgough was born in Mandistown, Slane in 1876, the son of Thomas Mcgough and Catherine (Dowdell) and with members of the family headed for the United States in 1894 and set up home in Philadelphia. He became a well paid buyer for Gimbel Brothers in Philadelphia and in April 1912 found himself on board the 'unsinkable' Titanic, heading home to the US. The Slane Historical Society researched the following details, namely that Mcgough said ignoring ship personnel saved his life....	25th April 2012
The Westmeath Independent	MARGARET RICE ORIGINAL FAMILY PORTRAIT Deirdre Verney A poignant 100-year-old portrait of an Athlone mother and her five sons who all perished on the Titanic will go under the hammer in Dublin next month. The historic photograph of Margaret Rice, neé Norton, who originally hailed from Connolly Street, Athlone, and her five sons ranging in age from ten years of age to just two, is believed to have been taken in late 1911 or early 1912 at a local studio prior to their departure for America. Tragically, the entire family later perished in the infamous Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912....	23rd November 2011

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