In the town of Belfast, the word "Titanic" is still met with downcast eyes and a grimace. The Titanic was the world's largest moving manmade object. It was the grandest and most advanced mechanism of its time, and was, rightly, viewed with pride by the inhabitants of the then-booming industrial city of Belfast. When the ship, built in the city's Harland and Wolff shipyard, sank … [Read more...] about An Icy Thaw for Belfast
Titanic
Discovery at Pearl Harbor
The search for the Japanese midget sub sunk off Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, had been ongoing for 61 years until Terry Kerby came along. Pat Bigold talks to the man who made the most significant modern marine archaeological find ever in the Pacific, second only to the finding of the Titanic in the Atlantic. Honolulu, Hawaii: Terry Kerby loves to rock climb Nevada's Whiskey … [Read more...] about Discovery at Pearl Harbor
Irish Roots:
The History of the Tobins
Tobin is not an indigenous Irish name, but the family can be regarded as having become completely hibernicized. Its Irish form, Toibín, is a gaelicized version of the Norman 'St. Aubyn.' Another interpretation is that the name was first called de St. Aubyn and the original bearers were from Aubyn, in Brittany, France.
According to the renowned Irish historian and genealogist, … [Read more...] about Irish Roots:
The History of the Tobins
Film Forum:
That Sinking Feeling,
Titanic Town Goes Under
Titanic Town, the fictional story of a Northern Ireland woman who mounts crusade for peace in 1972, is not the first movie to attempt to trade on James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic. The European film The Chambermaid on the Titanic barely managed to beat Cameron to the screen but had its title changed to The Chambermaid in 1998 U.S. advertising. That probably discouraged … [Read more...] about Film Forum:
That Sinking Feeling,
Titanic Town Goes Under