From Irish Central News 5/11/11
A farewell message in a bottle that was thrown from the Titanic can now be seen at the Titanic Exhibition in the Cobh Heritage Center.
(If you haven't visited Cobh and are thinking of going do!)
The letter, which was presented by a family member of the victim, goes on display just as next year's centenary of the ship's sinking approaches.
Jeremiah Burke didn’t have much time to write a last note to his family as the Titanic went down. The 19-year-old, who was traveling from his home in Glanmire, Co. Cork with his 18-year-old cousin Nora Hegarty, simply said “goodbye all” in his last note.
The note was left in a holy water bottle which Jeremiah was given at the quayside in Cobh by his mother before he set off for the United States.
As the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, he threw the bottle and message into the sea.
: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581
A farewell message in a bottle that was thrown from the Titanic can now be seen at the Titanic Exhibition in the Cobh Heritage Center.
(If you haven't visited Cobh and are thinking of going do!)
The letter, which was presented by a family member of the victim, goes on display just as next year's centenary of the ship's sinking approaches.
Jeremiah Burke didn’t have much time to write a last note to his family as the Titanic went down. The 19-year-old, who was traveling from his home in Glanmire, Co. Cork with his 18-year-old cousin Nora Hegarty, simply said “goodbye all” in his last note.
The note was left in a holy water bottle which Jeremiah was given at the quayside in Cobh by his mother before he set off for the United States.
As the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, he threw the bottle and message into the sea.
: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581
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