Dun Laoghaire - RMS Leinster Centenary Events

17/10/2018

Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4PCOL61tQg Short Film on the Leinster by Ronan McGreevy - have a watch

This film made by myself and Irish Times cameraman Enda O'Dowd tells the story of the RMS Leinster which was sunk by three German torpedoes on October 10th, ...

11/10/2018

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/eyewitness-account-of-the-sinking-of-rms-leinster-published-for-first-time-1.3653412

Hilda Dudgeon was hailed as a heroine of the tragic sinking which cost 550 lives

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Trevor Royle- photo

Members of the Friends of the Leinster Committee are pictured with (left) Trevor Royle, Advisor to the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government on WW1 commemorations and his wife, Dr. Hannah Royle, at the Failte Isteach event organized by the Friends of the Leinster Committee

Mr. Royle is particularly interested in events commemorating the sinking of the RMS Leinster as Scotland prepares to mark the centenary of the "Iolaire" disaster on New Year's Day 1919. The ship, carrying 283 sailors returning from WWI to the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, hit rocks known as "The Beasts of Holm" - official records put the death toll at 205, 181 of whom were islanders (essentially causing the death of the generation of islanders).

And, just as the RMS Leinster had a hero, Will Maher, the Iolaire, too, saw an extraordinary display of heroism from John F. Macleod who is credited with saving 40 lives by swimming ashore with a heaving line which allowed survivors to make their way ashore.

An Admiralty enquiry found no explanation for the disaster.

ENDS



Jeff Evans photo

Jeff Evans, former Mayor of Holyhead, addresses those attending the Failte Isteach event in the Eblana Club, Dun Laoghaire. Mr. Evans stressed how the RMS Leinster centenary events on both side of the Irish sea were cementing the link between the two town and ensuring that the disaster would never be forgotten.

11/10/2018

Some shots of the characters and actors who brought the streets back to 1918

Many thanks to students from Sallynoggin College of Further Education

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11/10/2018

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-45804468

More than 500 were killed when a steamer bound for north Wales was torpedoed by a U-boat 100 year ago.

11/10/2018

Myles Dungan presents RTÉ Radio 1's History Show. In this segment he looks at the sinking of the RMS Leinster, torpedoed by a German u-boat in the Irish Sea ...