2/20/2024 0 Comments Titanic instal the new for windows![]() Eight were from County Longford and three from County Galway. Eleven other passengers who also boarded at Queenstown were saved in this boat, which was lowered at about 1.20am. The lifeboat's capacity was 65, but it was not full. As the window depicts, Pat was holding his rosary beads and waving. ![]() As the lifeboat was lowered she looked up and saw her cousin, Pat Canavan, and the others including James Flynn. ![]() They were Catherine and Mary Bourke from Addergoole. One woman said: "I'll not leave my husband", and the other "I'll not leave my brother". A man accompanying two woman was refused entry. Annie was standing in line waiting to enter Boat 16. The Titanic Window, depicting Boat 16 being lowered, is based on what Addergoole survivor, Annie Kate Kelly, who became Sister Patrick Joseph, an Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan USA, remembered. The windows are appropriately placed either side of the existing marble memorial plaque, which was placed in St Patrick's Church in 2002, to honour the memory of the fourteen emigrants who sailed on RMS Titanic in 1912. The two stained glass windows, one entitled 'Emigration' and the other 'The Titanic Rescue', required research with an eye for detail, as well as respect for those who perished and those who survived.įortunately, present day descendants of the Addergoole Fourteen have kept this story committed to memory and the windows are a memorial to their ancestors. ![]() Fourteen people boarded Titanic from the locality in April 1912, eleven perished.ĭesigned by local artist Michael Coleman of Whitethorn Studios, the task of constructing the windows went to Art Glass in Derry, who also has the commission to create the stained glass dome ceiling in the re-created ballroom of the new signature building in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. ![]() The windows were the inspiration of the Addergoole Titanic Society, as part of the preparation to commemorate the centenary of the sinking of RMS Titanic with the Mayo Titanic Cultural Week 8th - 15th April 2012. In 2011 a dream became a reality with the installation of two specially commissioned stained glass windows in St Patrick's Church, Lahardane. ’Titanic Rescue' and 'Emigration' Stained Glass Windows ![]()
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