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Senan Molony

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Senan Molony

Senan Molony is an author and political editor of the Irish Daily Mail.  His first book, Celtic Mists is a parody of Irish history. The Phoenix Park Murders: Conspiracy, Betrayal and Retribution investigates the assassinations of Cavendish and Burke in the park in 1882. Molony is also the author of The Irish Aboard Titanic, A Ship Accused, The Titanic and the Mystery Ship, Titanic: Victims and Villains, Lusitania: An Irish Tragedy and Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple.

5 lessons from the loss of the Titan
Added 24th June 2023
Five lessons the operators of the Titan submersible could have learned from the original Titanic disaster...
5 LESSONS FROM THE LOSS OF THE TITAN
Beesley (et al) and the Aft Port Side Boats
Added 19th April 2023
Lawrence Beesley helps to re-write the Titanic’s lifeboat departure story...
BEESLEY (ET AL) AND THE AFT PORT SIDE BOATS
Coming to the Boyle
Added 15th March 2019
Titanic fire evidence prompts ‘Problems!’ remark...
COMING TO THE BOYLE
Face to Bareface Liar!
Titanic survivor confronts his own impostor....
FACE TO BAREFACE LIAR!
Titanic : Triumph and Tragedy
The third edition of the seminal reference book on the Titanic...
TITANIC : TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY
Lifeboats extinguished their lights!
Lifeboats from Titanic doused their lights to avoid dying swimmers after the sinking....
LIFEBOATS EXTINGUISHED THEIR LIGHTS!
HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY
Night and a Titan
What did Titanic look like at night?...
NIGHT AND A TITAN
The Band That Played On
Senan Molony reviews Steve Turner's new book about the musicians aboard the Titanic The Band that Played On...
THE BAND THAT PLAYED ON
Violet's Barren White Star Wedding
The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....
VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING
Rostron's Monster
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......
ROSTRON'S MONSTER
The Hart of the Matter
FIREMAN Hart stands on the deck of the Titanic, knowing he has no entitlement to a lifeboat place, and prepares to die…...
THE HART OF THE MATTER
Captain Lord 1961 Interviews Transcript
Captain Stanley Lord master of the SS Californian, interviewed by Leslie Harrison...
Groves' Inappropriate Joke
The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captain,...
GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE
Master and Commander
Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed...
MASTER AND COMMANDER
Rostron's Lost Report
Titanic survivors could have been marooned in the Azores! Captain Rostron of the Carpathia considered landing them in the mid-Atlantic island chain for their treatment and onward travel – while he would continue ...
ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT
When did Titanic try for help?
When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...
WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP?
WHO talked to Titanic?
Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...
WHO TALKED TO TITANIC?
Last Lap of the Largest
10 April 1912 marked Olympic's last arrival as the largest liner in the world...
LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST
The Turn of a Card
When Captain Smith gave the alarm, three gentlemen were in the Café Parisien playing bridge. One of them gathered up the cards and put them in his pocket, expecting to resume the game. Later the survivors autographed them and sent them to their friends in France......
THE TURN OF A CARD
Mount Temple Temp's Memories
Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple...
MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES
Ernest Gill in Australia
Judiciously, Ernest Gill journeyed to Australia.The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down Under in years thereafter.A donkeyman ...
The informative 'Morning News'
TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published in 1914 in th...
THE INFORMATIVE 'MORNING NEWS'
McGough the Key?
THERE’S a Titanic seaman named McGough who is claimed to be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures. He’s said to have helped lower lifeboat No. 14 – but to have departed in lifeboat No...
MCGOUGH THE KEY?
McGough the Killer
Two killers roamed the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage…...
MCGOUGH THE KILLER
The Riddle of the Sphinx
WHAT goes on four legs, then two legs, then three?The Riddle of the Sphinx, from Greek mythology, denotes the eternal voyage of man… from crawling on all fours, to walking proudly erect, to finally ending up hunched over a c...
THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
12.45am - A Time to Go!
What time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?...
12.45AM - A TIME TO GO!
Honour & Glory: Crowing Time!
What did Titanic's famous grand staircase clock symbolise?...
HONOUR & GLORY: CROWING TIME!
The Unknown Adult
COUNTERFOIL number 30887 lay on the wooden surface. Money joined it for a few minutes, and then money took wing and parted from the ticket. A moment later the ticket itself was taken up. One of the opening scenes of the ...
THE UNKNOWN ADULT
The Fleecing of Hugh Woolner
Titanic victim faced bankruptcy...
THE FLEECING OF HUGH WOOLNER
Birma's wireless bears witness!
We have struck an iceberg sinking fast!...
BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS!
Captain Ludwig Stulping of the s.s. Birma
CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ...
CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA
Titanic's Supreme Survivor
How the President of the Board of Trade misled parliament and got away with it...
TITANIC'S SUPREME SURVIVOR
Let the record speak for itself!
THERE is an old adage that the argument is not always about what the argument is about....
LET THE RECORD SPEAK FOR ITSELF!
Hugh Woolner's US evidence is highly unreliable.
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible t...
HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
A PV Solves a Puzzle
THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain...
A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE
Loaded and the Tramp
COLONEL John Jacob Astor was a hero of the Titanic disaster, putting his pregnant wife into one lifeboat and helping a child into another - defying an officer to do so. Those, at least, we...
LOADED AND THE TRAMP
The Portrush Letter
An insight into the character of Titanic Chief Officer Henry Wilde...
THE PORTRUSH LETTER
Lifeboats Don't Lie!
FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca...
LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE!
A Birthplace Reborn : The Titanic Quarter
PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the next s...
A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER
Lord Mersey — Obiter Dicta
HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would afford “the best means of arriving at a conclusio...
LORD MERSEY — OBITER DICTA
Identifying Stewards
What are the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea?...
IDENTIFYING STEWARDS
A Tale of Hoffman
A boy wakes, and he is on a train. The world is wriggling past the window. Papa looks, but does not say anything. Nor does he try to smile. ...
A TALE OF HOFFMAN
The Average Lifeboat
Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing...
THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT
On the Trail of 'Lucky' Tower
Titanic legend's most elusive man....
ON THE TRAIL OF 'LUCKY' TOWER
Rubáiyát reflections on Titanic
Mythical decorated book that went down with the Titanic...
RUBáIYáT REFLECTIONS ON TITANIC
The Middle Watch
WHAT follows is the complete text of a near-mystical document composed by the Third Officer of the Californian in April 1957, exactly 45 years af...
THE MIDDLE WATCH
Guinness 'Titanic' TV advert banned
Drinks commercial does not survive Titanic treatment A Guinness 'Titantic' ad has been banned because it could have caused offence to descendants of people who lost their lives in the tragedy. SINKING a pint has taken on a ...
GUINNESS 'TITANIC' TV ADVERT BANNED
A Last Bright Shining Lie
THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. The last lie of Titanic's extensiv...
A LAST BRIGHT SHINING LIE
PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG

Violet Constance Jessop
Victualling Crew

Eileen McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Thomas Arthur Whiteley
Victualling Crew

George Frederick Crow
Victualling Crew

Kate Florence Phillips
2nd Class Passenger

John Horgan
3rd Class Passenger

Daniel J. Moran
3rd Class Passenger

Margaret Mannion
3rd Class Passenger

Hugh Walter McElroy
Victualling Crew

Neal McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Hannah Riordan
3rd Class Passenger

Frank Dwan
3rd Class Passenger

John Kennedy
3rd Class Passenger

Thomas Rowan Morrow
3rd Class Passenger

Ellen Corr
3rd Class Passenger

Robert Hichens
Deck Crew

James Crimmins
Engineering Crew

Joseph Dawson
Engineering Crew

Elizabeth Dowdell
3rd Class Passenger

Charles Edward Andrews
Victualling Crew

Thomas Ryan
Victualling Crew

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Senan Molony (as Senan Baloney) (2001) A Garbled Titantic: 882½ Disaster Facts, and All of Them Wrong!, Garbled Press
Senan Molony (as Senan Malony) (2012) The Titanic: Lost Words, TickTock
Senan Molony (2015) Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple, Amberley Publishing

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