The Articles
- Century: 1912-22 Remembering the decade that shaped modern Ireland With these articles commemorating the sinking of Titanic, in April 1912, The Irish Times begins its decade-long Century project, marking a series of major centenaries, writes PATRICK SMYTH
- Titanic and the promise of an age At one level it was a simple if appalling tragedy: the destruction of a ship with the deaths of 1,500 people. But Belfast's sunken colossus, briefly a symbol of the prowess of an empire, quickly became a portent of darker times – and is now a tangle of fact and fiction, reality and metaphor, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE
- To hell or to Connacht: White Star's chairman Bruce Ismay, head of the company that owned Titanic, became a public disgrace after the ship sank. So he came to live in Connemara. ROSITA BOLAND retraces his steps
- Fr Browne's Titanic legacy The only photographs taken of Titanic on its single voyage were by the Irish Jesuit trainee Frank Browne. What happened to them and to their taker? ROSITA BOLAND reports.
- Selling the spirit of the stiff upper lip The sinking of Titanic was the sensational international news story of the early 20th century, writes MICHAEL McCAUGHAN
- Titanic: the legacy is still afloat 100 years on Enshrining the values and social fabric of the era, Titanic was a microcosm of western civilisation and its misplaced certainties in a gilded age before the first World War., writes MICHAEL McCAUGHAN
- How a sinking ship became king of the box office A year or so after James Cameron hoodwinked the universe into thinking his version of the Titanic disaster was something other than briny effluent, Hollywood invited some unattached scriptwriters to fashion a similar disaster movie based on the immolation of the LZ 129 Hindenberg, writes DONALD CLARKE
- Belfast: the city that built Titanic With a workforce of almost 15,000, the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast not only created Titanic; it shaped the fortunes of the city and its people. But life was not easy for those who built the ship, writes ALF MCREARY
- 'There used to be a sense of shame she had been built here - not now' Descendents of some of the men who worked and died on 'Titanic' tell FIONOLA MEREDITH about the ship's legacy
- The launch of a leviathan 'Titanic' slid into Belfast Harbour 100 years ago this week, a year before its only voyage. In the first of a three-part series, maritime historian MICHAEL MCCAUGHAN explains how the unthinkable happened to the unsinkable
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