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Titanic appreciation - a view from ‘across the pond’

January 24 2010

This week’s blog post come from North Carolina, from a Titanicdock.com supporter called Melinda Ratchford, who has been an enthusiast of Titanic study and from her earliest work as an educator has used it as a means of visiting many key elements of the human experience. Thanks to Melinda for sharing this story and we look forward to welcoming her to Belfast.

Part I - ‘We’re all on Titanic’ the musings of Michael McCaughan back in 2006

December 21 2009

I came across a very interesting article from 2006, written by Michael McCaughan, Museum Curator at Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, headlined ‘We’re all on Titanic’. I thought the headline pertinent, particularly in the wake of failure at last week’s environmental summit in Copenhagen. In a year that has shown a global banking system seemingly more collapsible than a deck chair and a year which has highlighted the shadowy spectre of a decade of lies relating to various war-mongering around the world, I wonder what his feelings are now, three years on? We’ll seek out an interview from Michael in the New Year but for now, here’s the first of 3 posts relating his musings in the 2006 article. Michael has also written ‘The Titanic Birth of the Titanic’, published by Blackstaff Press (link below).