According to Robert Fisk’s “IN TIME OF WAR” the Stormont regime was more anxious to protect the statue of Carson than the inhabitants of Belfast from German bombing during the Blitz. Why the Luftwaffe would have wanted to bomb Carson I can’t imagine. He had been hailed by one of his MP followers as the Leader of the First Fascist Movement in Europe, and THE IRISH TIMES had lamented that he had been born too early to emerge as “a Mussolini, or even a Hitler.”
On this anniversary of the sinking of RMS TITANIC it might be no harm to be told that the death toll was more than three times that of the 1916 Insurrection. Nor that those responsible were as negligent about passenger safety as Stormont was for the inhabitants of Belfast during the German Blitz.
I don’t know if Belfast has a memorial wall for the passengers lost plus another one for those saved.Considering the social divisions of the time it might not be appropriate to have them cheek by jowl with one another. Most of those who built the ship would, if they sailed on her, be steerage passengers, and their safety would not have been considered a priority.
The Chairman of the White Star Line, who commissioned the ship, was one of the passengers who survived. He survived until 1937. His Obituary in that Paper of Record THE TIMES (of London) failed to mention his connection with the White Star Line, and RMS TITANIC.
Ah, the Titanic, built, and sunk, in Belfast, always great to celebrate incompetence.
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