The Irish aboard the Titanic

Focusing on the Irish passengers and crew on board the Titanic, this work provides an insight into the social conditions and political context of the time and how race, religion and social class impacted the chance of survival. It highlights the subsequent failure to call on the evidence of third-class survivors at the official inquiries, many of whom were the last to take to the lifeboats and witnessed the ship breaking into two. The individual stories of the Irish passengers and crew on board are told, supported by their letters, interviews and newspaper reports as well as many photographs. Details of non-Irish first- and second-class passengers embarking at Queenstown (Cobh) are also given. Appendices include a plan of lifeboats and their Irish occupants, details of those who disembarked at Queenstown, third-class passengers who were booked aboard Titanic at Queenstown but who did not embark, and the White Star Line list of those embarking at Queenstown who survived or were lost in the sinking.