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[marguerite_26]

Last night, I was getting my nightly Peter Mansbridge fix and watched this: The Pride of Belfast. I found it a really interesting look at the Belfast's 'lack of pride' of its role in the making of Titanic and how they are slowly turning that around.

Anyway, I assume the new waterfront building they showed (which looked fucking amazing!) (at around 6:35) will be the showcase for BBC's commemoration show that Colin is in.

This post brought to you by my need to procrastinate.

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[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

That is interesting that Belfast felt a "lack of pride" in building the Titanic. It wasn't any fault of the builders that the damn thing hit an iceberg! And even now that the prevailing theory is that overly brittle iron rivets caused the hull plates to buckle and pop that still wasn't the fault of the builders. That was simply the technology of the day. They built her sister ship the Olympic which served ably until retiring of old age. It's sad that such a feeling should have prevailed over a tragedy for which they had no responsibility.

Also, thank you for the link to that video, I'm gonna go check it out now.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

I hope it works for you. It's a Canadian site that I don't think blocks regions, so let me know if it doesn't.

Another interesting thing in that vid if you get to it, is that the 'shame' of the Titantic actually became used in the Protestant/Catholic violence. That the Catholic used it in taunts that 'Protestants' build the ship that killed so many. /o\

That said, I'm always cautious about news stories making things more dramatic than they are, so. Still... adds an interesting twist with Colin being Catholic and doing this promo.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

The link worked just fine (I'm in the US) for me. Very interesting. I have to admit to being a Titanic freak. My fascination started when I was very young because I had a much older cousin who was also a Titanic freak and he got me into the whole history of the disaster. (I'm a huge fan of disasters in general, when listing "interests" on profiles, I generally put "the history of catastrophic disaster.) I started out reading every book I could get my hands on on the subject then moved on to reading original sources including first person accounts, diaries, letters and the transcripts from hearings/investigations by the US Senate & the British Board of Trade. I got so soaked in the minutia of the Titanic's history that eventually I found myself jotting down corrections the margins of other people's non-fiction books about the disaster! It was at that point I decided it was time to back away a little but I still love to revisit the subject any time I can!

I would love to go visit that museum complex they are building!

From what I've heard of and from Colin that he'd not let his Catholicism influence his treatment of something like this. He's just too classy for that.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

My father was a ship's captain so I definitely understand your fascination with Titanic. Though I'm a wuss, and the tragedy of it gets me too upset so I had to limit my fascination to simple facts and not people stories. (I could only watch the movie once).

But I would LOVE to visit that museum too. just the scale of it makes my heart race. :)

I didn't mean that Colin himself would be making a political statement either way by participating (because i agree that doesn't seem to fit with the say he comes across at all.) I meant more of a bigger picture, what it says about how things have changed so dramatically in the last decade.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, well all I can say is Thank God. I know I still (probably) have family in Belfast though we lost contact in my mother's generation. I can only be happy my branch of the family got out a few generations back. Still, it's made all of us very relieved to see the way things have improved there.

(Honestly, I am the quintessential American Melting Pot and come from a mix of heritages that include no fewer than 11 distinct nationalities. Though, even with that mix, we are more Irish than anything else.Three out of 4 great-grandmothers were pure Irish and each from a different region, North, Middle and South!)

Sorry for the babbling, I'm still pretty heavily drugged!