Parents often look down at the whorl on the top of their children’s heads and wonder what, exactly, is going on inside. An ...
When the Titanic set sail in 1912, the “onboard storage pantry” had 40,000 eggs. Today, in 2025, we’ve had much murmuring ...
Titanic, and Britannic. It was an opulent but ill-fated trio, and Jessop happened to be working on each ship when disaster struck. The first in this series of maritime misfortunes was the ...
The White Star Line, hoping to compete with its main rival, countered by ordering three massive ocean liners—the Olympic, ...
You can still visit it today. The architect of Titanic and its sister ships Olympic and Britannic was Alexander Carlisle. The designer was born in Ballymena and is generally thought to have been ...
Actress and historian Leslie Goddard is returning to the Theatre at the Center stage in Munster to share with audiences the ...
Actor and historian Leslie Goddard has returned to the Theatre at the Center stage in Munster to share this true account of the twin nautical disasters Jessop survived in vivid and fascinating detail ...
Violet Jessop was a career woman, a rarity at the turn of the century, working as a cabin maid crew member of luxury ...