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The seldom-told story of the third-class Irish passengers on board the doomed RMS Titanic – some were survivors, others were heroes and victims

On The Anniversary Of The Titanic, Remember The Cruel Depths And Noble Heights Of Their Final Hours: Some men chose to stoically help their families into boats and then stand aside Posted on On the morning of April 15, 1912, the survivors of the Titanic were pulled from the icy North Atlantic by the Carpathia. The night before, at 11:40 p.m., shipboard time, the ship had struck an iceberg in a glancing-but-fatal blow, tearing into six of her 16 compartments — two more than the greatest ship ever made could withstand. Capt. Edward Smith, a man with four decades on the seas, immediately went...

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Wikicommons The R.M.S. Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, ending its maiden voyage across the Atlantic; of the 2,224 people on the ship, 1,503 lost their lives in the icy waters. More than a century later, this story still captivates imaginations around the world, inspiring prolific fiction and nonfiction, movies and musicals. In the words of James Cameron, director of the 1997 film named after the ship, “her story is like a great novel that really happened.” The sinking of the Titanic was also a “lifeboat ethics” scenario involving actual lifeboats. Looking back on the disaster allows p...

Father Paul Daly at his Silver Jubilee Mass in 2015 Heywood priest Father Paul Daly has taken on a new role at Salford Cathedral after 16 years at Our Lady and St Joseph’s. For the last five years Fr Daly has been Episcopal Vicar for Formation, heading up a department of the Diocese of Salford on behalf of the Bishop, dealing with all aspects of Adult Formation across the 90+ parishes of the Salford Diocese. After leaving his Heywood role on Tuesday (26 January), Fr Daly will now be doing this role full-time based at the Diocesan Offices at Salford Cathedral. Fr Daly came to Heywood on 3...