Titanic
# titanic - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Historic Titanic artifacts returned to Cobh for anniversary
Items on display include a leather suitcase purchased at Harrods, a number of photographs and a hand-painted fan.
# titanic - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Barna in Connemara most popular with Irish holidaymakers in 2012
Abbeyleix, Woodenbridge and Ballina also so significant increases in online searches by Irish people.
# titanic - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
First Irish TV, Titanic, a famous ceiling: the big anniversaries of 2012
The Titanic disaster, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty: 2012 has been a big year for commemorations. Here’s your guide to the bigger commemorations held this year.
# titanic - Sunday 25 November, 2012
Draw me like one of your French girls…
Iceberg, right ahead!
# titanic - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
# titanic - Sunday 23 September, 2012
Video: What futuristic films promised would happen by now
Computer tablets, Big Brother and exploding supernovas – some of these have come true…
# titanic - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
VIDEO: Kate Winslet’s first screen test for Titanic, circa 1996
Wait, that’s not Leonardo di Caprio…
# titanic - Saturday 25 August, 2012
High Court grants injunction against sale of 16ft Titanic model
A Cork-based personal assistant is granted an injunction stopping her former partner from selling a scale model.
# titanic - Sunday 19 August, 2012
In photos: Fancy living it up on Celine Dion’s private island?
The singer’s home was clearly also her castle…
# titanic - Monday 6 August, 2012
Women and children first? Not anymore says shipwreck study
A study into shipwrecks over the years shows that when it comes to survival it is every man for himself.
# titanic - Friday 22 June, 2012
In pictures: One of the Titanic’s last letters to go on display at museum
The letter was brought ashore to Cobh – then known as Queenstown – on the doomed ship’s last stop.
# titanic - Thursday 21 June, 2012
# titanic - Monday 30 April, 2012
The 5 at 5: Monday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Billionaire announces construction of Titanic II
Australian Clive Palmer says the ship, based on the Titanic’s design, will have the latest safety systems on board.
# titanic - Sunday 15 April, 2012
Extract: ‘They tried to keep us down on the steerage deck as Titanic sank’
A new book brings to life the tragedy through the voices of those who survived. In this extract, survivor Daniel Buckley recounts the night the liner went down.
Prayers and silence mark Titanic centenary
As the world paused to remember the victims,officials revealed there may be human remains embedded in the ocean floor where the Titanic came to rest.
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
The 9 at 9: Sunday
Good morning! Here’s nine things to know this Sunday…
In pictures: The aftermath of the Titanic tragedy
Shivering survivors, grief-stricken relatives waiting on the docks and shock in the White Star Line offices: a pictorial record of the world receiving news that the ‘unsinkable’ ship had done the unthinkable.
# titanic - Saturday 14 April, 2012
Cold mountain: This is the iceberg that sank the Titanic
The significance of this picture was only discovered long after it was taken by a seaman on another liner cruising off Newfoundland at the time Titanic sank.
Extract: ‘Titanic underwent her trials, which were entirely satisfactory’
The men who built the Titanic recall the safety tests on the ‘unsinkable’ ship before her maiden voyage.
Who owns the Titanic, and who can dive at the wreck?
TheJournal.ie has been looking into issues surrounding the Titanic disaster 100 years after the ship struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage.
In pictures: 9 Titanic artefacts recovered from the ship
Old letters, tickets, watches – here’s just some of the objects that have been raised from the Titanic.
The 9 at 9: Saturday
Good morning! Here’s nine things you should know this Saturday…
Concerts, cruises and exhibits: what’s happening to mark the Titanic’s anniversary?
Commemorations are taking place in Cobh, Belfast, and Southampton to mark the centenary of one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history.
# titanic - Friday 13 April, 2012
Column: Cardinal Rules – on hairdryers, Big Ben Dunne and the Titanic ‘industry’
This week, the (not) primate of All Ireland recalls the terrible events after Ardfillan won the county final: ““The whole team went into the dressing room, roaring and shouting like apes. Then they put on all the hair dryers…”
The Daily Fix: Friday
All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.
Stunning Titanic graphic novel was seven years in the making
Irish illustrator reveals his labour of love – a graphic novel that chronicles the experience of photographer Fr Frank Browne on board the doomed ship.
17 bits of tacky Titanic memorabilia
From shower curtains to inflatable slides, here are some of the items you may not want to mark the disaster’s 100th anniversary with…
# titanic - Thursday 12 April, 2012
Report: it’s everyone for themselves on sinking ships
Men are more likely to survive sinking ships than women and children – and captains are more likely to make it than their passengers, according to new research.
# titanic - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
The Daily Fix: Wednesday
All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.
This is where the Titanic was at this time exactly 100 years ago
Interactive map shows that the ship would have been off the southwestern coast of Ireland, having left Cobh at 1.30pm on this day in 1912.
Michael D Higgins to mark 100 years since Titanic left Ireland
The president will travel to Cobh today, exactly a century after the liner docked there.
The luckiest priest on the Titanic…
Fr Frank Browne left behind one of the most valuable photographic records of the first leg of the Titanic’s maiden voyage. Luckily for him, his Jesuit superior ordered him off the boat at Cobh.
# titanic - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
Passenger suffers suspected heart attack on board MS Balmoral
The man has received medical attention on board the vessel, which has turned back as a “precautionary measure”.
In pictures: The Titanic launching from Southampton 10 April, 1912
These pictures record the grandeur of the Titanic on the day it began its tragic maiden voyage exactly 100 years ago today.
Is Titanic a true story? Er, yes.
Some Twitter users have had their #mindblown by news that there was a ship called Titanic and it did actually sink. And they are not the only ones…
In pictures: Passengers from ‘Titanic’ cruise stop off in Ireland
They were greeted in Cobh by crowds, music and the ‘Titanic Deals’ discount store…
# titanic - Monday 9 April, 2012
VIDEO: Final moments of the Titanic reconstructed in new animation
What happened to the huge liner as it went down? This video may offer new insights…






















































