Michael McCaughan

Michael McCaughan is Head of Transport in the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland. As a curator at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum for almost thirty years, his work has focused mainly on the study and interpretation of Irish maritime history and traditions. He has organised many important exhibitions, including Titanic’ and ‘Homeland’ which travelled in Europe and the United States. With an international reputation as a lecturer and writer, he is recognised for his ground-breaking research on the cultural significance of the Titanic phenomenon. He is also an artist whose culturescape photoworks have been exhibited in galleries in Ireland, Britain and the United States. Michael McCaughan is married, with two children and two grandchildren. — Biography from The Birth of the Titanic