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THE FINAL WORDS of a young man who died on board the Titanic when it sank in 1912 has gone on display in Cork.
Jeremiah Burke was just 19 when he boarded the boat in Cobh, known then as Queenstown, in Co Cork to set sail for America but perished in the disaster along with 1,521 other passengers and crew members.
However at some point on the trip before the sinking Burke, from near Glanmire in Cork, had written a note and put it in a bottle, throwing it overboard. The bottle – with the note still intact inside – turned up a year later… on the coastline at Glanmire. It was passed on to his grieving relatives.
The note was headed with the date 10/4/1912 – four days before the ship sank. It had a simple message: “From Titanic. Goodbye all. Burke of Glanmire, Cork.”
Cobh Heritage Centre have put the message on display alongside their Titanic memorabilia collection. A spokesperson for the Centre told TheJournal.ie that they had received the precious souvenir from Jeremiah Burke’s relatives who still live in the area and added it to their Titanic exhibition in a special ceremony this week.
The Cobh Heritage Centre is planning a large range of events for next year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the terrible disaster of 14 April 1912.
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They should do a book, they’s make thousands at Christmas. I recognised so many of the old one, good memories.
Good idea!!!
Lovely to see them. Thanks.
it was always hard for ireland to match up to john hinde postcards it was better than the real thing; glorious sunshine and sunsets in every postcard, but very nostalgic
when i lived in new zealand i always got a john hinde calendar from my family at christmas time .it made the long year more bearable for an irishman in exile . there must be thousands of these calendars hanging in irish homes all over australia and new zealand .it would be a shame to see it come to an end ..
Well, Kevin, let me tell you I live in New Zealand and have done for the past twelve years. Let’s see. We’ve got jobs, we don’t have the political corruption that is part of the fabric of Irish life. We have a fabulous climate. We don’t have the pollution and privatising of our precious countryside. We have space to move around in. We don’t have the fear of being mugged in our own homes. We have a healthy, happy and equitable multi-cultural country. We are not defined by bigotry and intolerance. We have excellent public services. We are not riddled by the inefficiencies and couldn’t-be-arsed values of the Civil Service. Best of all, we have a wonderful country to bring up happy, curious and adventurous children. We are encouraged to love and enjoy this hidden gem at the far end of the planet. Yes, i miss my friends and family terribly, but when they come to visit, they never want to go home. . David Green
Lovely to see all the old ones. I recognize some from my own collection. A collectors book would be lovely to have.
I always bought his postcards and sent them to family and friends across the Pond. I have loved looking through them.
Good, in these times, to see something of old Ireland that we can look back on with some fondness. Don’t forget the calendars at Christmas, maybe there’s hope for them.
yes i agree a collectors book would be great or/and a postcard book to maybe have at hand to sen when you like without having to call into shops to find maybe shop have none in stock so buy a book of them at a time
A romantic view of ourselves before we lost the run of things but beautiful all the same.
Fantastic photos.
Another piece of old Ireland disappears. The beauty of those pictures is a reminder of all we’ve lost.
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