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00:00Ich bin zu Amerika auf der Nisest船 in der Welt gekommen.
00:13Das ist nicht einfach so schön.
00:17Ich bin mit den Nisest Leuten in der Welt gekommen.
00:21Sie leben in Chicago und ich werde den ganzen Tag mit ihnen machen.
00:25Sie haben mir alles über Chicago erzählt, und ich weiß, dass ich es viel besser als ich in Irland möchte.
00:34Yours truly, Annie Kelly
00:36In April 1912, 14 Menschen aus der Parich von Addergul in der Weste von Irland setzten, zu emigraten in Amerika.
00:47Sie waren emigraten von Poverty, um ein besserer Leben für sie selbst.
00:50Sie kamen von der eine Parich und sie alle leften auf der einen Tag.
00:53Unfortunately for them, they had the bad luck to step on board the ill-fated steamliner, the ship of dreams, the RMS Titanic.
01:06The Addergul 14 would have been among the poorest to have boarded Titanic.
01:1211 of the 14 died on Titanic. Only 3 survived.
01:17That, from any one community, had to have been the highest number.
01:23I can't think of any that would have rivaled that, from any other country.
01:27Grandma had said she recalls at first that people were on deck picking up chunks of ice that had scraped off from the iceberg,
01:35putting it in their drinks because it seems there were many parties and celebrations going on at that hour of the night.
01:40Many of the survivors said at night they would have nightmares and what they would hear is the screaming of the people in the water.
01:51And the tiny village they left behind was so traumatized that they didn't speak about the relatives they lost on Titanic for almost a hundred years.
02:00Until now.
02:02Addergul is a small townland in North County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland.
02:22It's a remote but scenic area, situated between the shores of Loch Conn and the foothills of Nathan.
02:29At the heart of Addergul is the tiny village of Laherdon.
02:33In 1912, the population of Laherdon was only 96 people living in 22 houses.
02:41The Addergul story was one of the most tragic of the people's stories on Titanic.
02:48And it was the numbers, the numbers of people that were involved.
02:52There were 14 young Irish people from Addergul Parish in County Mayo.
02:58Of the 14, all but three did not survive the disaster.
03:03And this is a very, very high percentage of loss.
03:07The Addergul 14 traveled together in two main groups.
03:11Catherine McGowan was related to Annie McGowan.
03:14Catherine lived in America and had returned to Addergul to bring her niece Annie back with her.
03:24While she was at home, her tales of success in America encouraged the 14 to travel together with her as a group.
03:32She traveled around, recruiting more people to go.
03:35She was obviously going to set them all up in certain jobs in Chicago, if they came with her to Chicago.
03:39And being as successful as she was, she was always very enthusiastic about this adventure.
03:45Annie Kate Kelly, her friend Delia Mahan, Nora Fleming and Bridget Donoghue already had plans to emigrate to America.
03:54But the prospect of traveling together with Catherine McGowan meant safety in numbers.
04:01Catherine Burke was a close friend of Catherine McGowan's.
04:04Catherine and her husband John were only married a year and had been childhood sweethearts.
04:11They realized that their only hope of living the life they dreamed of together was to emigrate.
04:17Dear Ellie,
04:19I suppose you've already heard of the fit I've taken.
04:23Well, I'll be sailing for America on the 11th of April with Kate McGowan.
04:27He'll be thinking I'm in terrible distress.
04:30But no, I'm quite happy going.
04:31When I sent you the shamrock, I'd no notion of going, no more than the man in the moon.
04:37But made up me mind all in a minute.
04:40I'm very short of time just now, as I'm busy as ever I can be.
04:44Kate McGowan is here.
04:46I'm going to a funeral.
04:48I must close with love to you from Catherine Burke.
04:52Upon hearing of their plans, John's sister Mary Burke also decided to travel with them.
05:06Mary Mangan was also a friend of Catherine McGowan.
05:09She too lived in America and had returned to Addergool to announce to her parents the news of her engagement to be married.
05:16Pat Canavan was 21 years of age, a rugged west of Ireland lad.
05:25He too was leaving Ireland in search of a better life.
05:29He travelled with his friend James Flynn and his cousin Mary Canavan, who was also James' stepsister.
05:36Mary Canavan's friend Delia McDermott travelled with them.
05:39They were the only group to go together, all together, from a parish, from any area in the country.
05:50Ireland in 1912 was a very tough place to live.
05:56It was a poverty-stricken country where people lived under a cold west climate.
06:00Large families of 10 or 12 people were crammed into tiny three-roomed houses.
06:12Everyone was poor and every member of the family worked around the clock just to survive.
06:18It was literally a hand-to-mouth existence.
06:21There were difficult times. There was no income, aren't you?
06:24It was a poor, impoverished area and the population were the same.
06:28Poor and impoverished.
06:28It was a hard, tedious, mundane task to survive here, for everyone here.
06:35Because life was so tough, communities were very close-knit and they depended on each other completely to survive.
06:42Everybody knew each other well.
06:44Whole communities worked together to save the hay or bring in the turf.
06:52It was this closeness that brought relief to the hard lives they lived.
06:56They had no money.
06:59They just didn't have money.
07:00They had barter and they were self-sufficient to the point of view of having a few cows and growing some wheat and some vegetables.
07:07Not an awful lot, though.
07:08That's how critical things were.
07:11They lived in humble houses.
07:13They were really grim, old, damp, cautious.
07:16They were cold because they weren't very well off and they weren't very well fed and nutrition was very poor.
07:22They died in their 40s, 50s, 60s of old age in those days.
07:26Or they died of consumption TB, which was rampant in most communities at the time.
07:30Cold, damp houses, turf fires, heavy smoke.
07:34It was a huge environment for tuberculosis.
07:35And they had TB without knowing it.
07:39One small hitch, such as a wet summer, a bad harvest or an illness, could literally ruin a family.
07:50Because of this, emigration was rife.
07:53Oh, yeah, like immigration was rampant, I suppose, at that time.
07:57It was from every townland they were leaving.
08:00There was no work for them here or no prospects of work for them here at that time.
08:05Between 1850 and 1912, over 4 million people had emigrated Ireland,
08:10a huge figure considering the population was only 8 million.
08:14Nearly every family in Ireland had a relative abroad.
08:17The education system was basic, and outside of cities,
08:34most people only received a primary education, and many never finished primary school.
08:40Emigrants left as young as 14.
08:42School records across Ireland show the scratched-out names of those marked
08:46Gone to the USA.
08:47In fact, it became a fashion, a rite of passage.
08:54Families would proudly await and display photographs and letters from America, England, Australia.
09:01Katie's Borden House, Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
09:07At this time, nearly every family in Ireland had a relative abroad.
09:12New laws meant that only one child in a family could inherit the family land.
09:16Most families had between six and twelve children.
09:21This meant that the rest of the children, once they came of age, had to find work elsewhere.
09:26There was no work in Ireland, even in the cities,
09:30especially for poor, uneducated countrymen and women.
09:34Marriage or emigration was the only option.
09:36Newspapers carried dozens of ads every day, prompting people to travel on the fastest, the largest, the most luxurious of liners.
09:48The shipping lines competed aggressively for business, as steerage was where the companies made their greatest profits.
09:55Ticket agents roamed the countryside, knocking on doors with brochures, persuading people of the better life they could have abroad.
10:03And those who could afford to go, went in their droves.
10:10The girls left more than the fellas left.
10:13Because there was no implying for girls down here at all.
10:15You always sent your daughter to America if you could.
10:18And if you could, you'd try to get her to America, not to England, because it was rough in England at the time.
10:22But if you got to America, you are well made.
10:25And if you got your daughter to America, that was the best thing you could ever do as a father.
10:31The price of a ticket in third class on Titanic was just over £7 sterling.
10:36This is the equivalent of about £700 sterling in today's money.
10:41But in 1912, it would take at least three years for the average Irish family to save this.
10:47To them, it was a fortune.
10:48The Addergul 14 couldn't have afforded it, and their parents couldn't have afforded it either.
10:53So thus, remittances, money coming back from America, which brought the next generation over.
10:58And the remittances was a huge phenomenon at the time.
11:00The money was coming back from those abroad.
11:02And that's how this area survived, and that's what got the 14 over.
11:06The 14 headed off from the village here and got on, as bad luck would have it, Titanic.
11:12While the Addergul 14 were planning their new lives in America, only a hundred miles away in Belfast,
11:21construction had started on what was to be the greatest ship in the world.
11:26This was the ship that should have taken the Addergul 14 to their dreams, but instead took them to their graves.
11:33Construction began on the Titanic in 1907.
11:39It took three years to build.
11:42At the time, it revolutionized sea travel, as it was the largest, fastest, and most luxurious ocean-going steamliner ever built.
11:51It was the first ship that was guaranteed unsinkable.
11:54Titanic cost one and a half million pounds sterling to build.
12:00In today's money, that's four hundred million pounds.
12:05Harland and Wolfe employed 15,000 people during this period.
12:09With such a massive weekly payroll, the Harland and Wolfe shipyard in Belfast became the biggest private employer in Ireland at that time.
12:24Dear Annie, I hope this letter finds you well.
12:31I am writing to let you know that I will be returning to Ireland for a holiday in a few weeks, and I'm so looking forward to meeting you.
12:37I hope that you will be returning to America with me.
12:40It's a lovely place to live.
12:42There are lots of opportunities in America.
12:44Jobs are plentiful.
12:47Yours faithfully, your loving aunt, Catherine McGowan.
12:50Fourteen was a considerable number.
12:53In contrast, when people left in ones and twos, they left all together as fourteen.
12:58Probably orchestrated by one person amongst them all, Catherine McGowan.
13:09Catherine was the perfect example of a successful emigrant.
13:12She had made it big in Chicago, having set up a boarding house, providing room and board to the newly arrived Chicago immigrants.
13:21She was a rich entrepreneur and had returned to Ireland to escort her niece Annie to Chicago.
13:27Dear Auntie, I'm really looking forward to going to America.
13:34I'm very glad that you are coming to collect me.
13:37I'm looking forward to the opportunities ahead of me, and hopefully, with your help, I'll be able to find some work.
13:43Yours, Annie McGowan.
13:45When she returned to Addergool, she returned a very different lady from the girl who had emigrated 22 years previously.
13:54Catherine was now a wealthy woman and returned dressed in finery and loaded with money and tales of the opportunities and riches that could be found in Chicago.
14:06Catherine knew all of the fourteen and actively persuaded them to travel together with her to America.
14:12She told them stories of broad streets, jobs aplenty, and lives beyond their wildest dreams.
14:20One by one, she persuaded them all to travel together at the same time on the same ship.
14:25I'm related to Annie McGowan.
14:28When Annie finished school, she was in contact with her aunt Catherine McGowan.
14:34The fourteen would be very much excited.
14:37Because they all had the same expectations as Catherine McGowan told them about.
14:46They probably thought that they could attain the same status as Catherine McGowan by going to America.
14:52The week of the 8th of April, 1912, there were fourteen wakes held in houses across the townland of Addergool.
15:11There were fourteen deaths to be honoured.
15:15These weren't real deaths or real wakes, but American wakes.
15:19Ireland has always had lots of customs and traditions.
15:27One of these was the tradition of the American wake.
15:33When emigrants were leaving to go to America, their family and friends would hold a symbolic wake.
15:40Emigrating was like a death.
15:42A person who emigrated in these times would most likely never see their family or friends again.
15:47Most emigrants, bar the lucky few, never returned to Ireland once they left.
15:54These were very emotional affairs and bittersweet.
16:18Very sad for the family of a person leaving and for the person themselves.
16:23But also, the prospects of a better life were exciting.
16:30When Titanic was launched in 1911, the White Star Line made a point of not christening the ship
16:43or blessing it with the customary, may God bless her and all who sail in her.
16:48This caused huge consternation.
16:51At that time around Europe, it was considered unlucky to travel on any maiden voyage.
16:55Many very superstitious, the Irish included, looked upon this to a certain extent as
17:08flaunting God, saying God couldn't sink this ship.
17:14Wherever in the world there is poverty, there is religion.
17:21And Ireland in 1912 was no different.
17:25Because life here was so precarious, the Irish were very religious.
17:29They were also very superstitious.
17:31There was a lot of forewarnings about sailing on Titanic.
17:36Delia McDermott, for one, had had an experience about this herself.
17:41Only a few days before Delia left on Titanic, a stranger stopped her on the road one evening
17:47when she was returning home with friends.
17:50He told her that she'd be making a journey in a few days and that there'd be a terrible tragedy,
17:55that hundreds would die, but she would be saved.
17:59Other family members of Adagool people also had psychic forewarnings, so to speak.
18:06The night before she left, Delia Mahan's brother read her tea leaves and allegedly told her
18:12there would be a terrible disaster on her journey and that she would die.
18:17But these weren't strong enough, I guess, to keep the people from sailing.
18:23The day before the Adagool 14 left Ireland, they spent their final hours preparing, packing and with family.
18:42Mary Mangan spent this time with her parents before going back to America to get married and start a new life.
18:57Catherine and John Burke were also preparing for a new life.
19:01They were expecting their first baby, which would be born in America.
19:05They were full of plans and hope for their new life and family.
19:09Delia McDermott's mother told her that to be a lady in America, she had to wear a hat, that all ladies wore hats there.
19:24She told her that to be a real American lady, one must arrive in New York wearing a hat and gloves.
19:31The day before Delia left, her mother took her to Hickson's shop in Crossmalina to buy her first hat and gloves.
19:50Bridget O'Donoghue worked in the local shop.
19:53The day before she left, the three-year-old daughter of the shop owner asked Bridget to send her back a ring from New York.
19:59To get the sizing right, Bridget measured the little girl's finger with a piece of string.
20:14James Flynn spent the afternoon with his sister, who was upset at his leaving.
20:19She had been deaf since birth, and James was the only one of her family or friends that could sign with her.
20:24He promised he'd send her a ticket for her passage once he got to New York.
20:37When Titanic was launched and in the water, she had the most expensive fitting out of any ship.
20:42The facilities were state-of-the-art.
20:46A heated swimming pool, a gym completed with multi-gym machines, rowing machines and spinning machines.
20:52The famous Grand Staircase was hand-built from oak and mahogany by Belfast's master craftsmen.
21:02Because steerage class was where the shipping companies made their greatest profits,
21:06the White Star Line decided that Titanic would revolutionise this class.
21:11Steerage on Titanic was real luxury.
21:13It wasn't called steerage.
21:15It was called third class.
21:17And third class on Titanic was like second class on most other ships,
21:21and even as good as first class on some ships.
21:25The finished ship was resplendent, sleek and elegant,
21:29deemed the largest and fastest ship in the world.
21:33All the Titanic needed now, a crew and passengers.
21:37On the morning of April 10th, 1912,
21:52the Addergool 14 made their way to Castlebar train station.
21:56Goodbyes were emotional.
22:01They faced a 14-hour journey to County Cork to meet Titanic,
22:06which was now preparing to leave Southampton, England.
22:21When the 14 reached Castlebar train station,
22:25they were excited but nervous.
22:27This was final, and they were now leaving home.
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24:43Es war der größte Schiff in Existenz, der größte, der sicherste, und es war unsinkbar.
24:51Die drei Tage die Addergülle 14 über den Titanic haben, waren eines der besten Tage ihrer Leben.
24:58Und die Leben über den Titanic renforzten ihre Erwartungen,
25:02was ihre neue Leben in Amerika wäre für sie.
25:13Annie Kate Kelly was my aunt.
25:17She was in bed when somebody woke her up and said the Titanic is sinking.
25:23She thought they were teasing her.
25:26But then somebody else came and they said, oh yeah, you've got to get out.
25:35When Titanic hit the iceberg, the Addergülle 14 were in different parts of the ship.
25:40Some were in their cabins, others were at a party.
25:44The impact wasn't felt by everyone.
25:46In fact, the shudder was so slight that many people on the ship didn't even feel it.
25:53So everyone was calm and orderly.
25:55Nobody thought the ship was in any danger.
26:03Grandma had said she recalls at first that people were on deck,
26:08picking up chunks of ice that had scraped off from the iceberg,
26:11putting it in their drinks because it seems there were many parties
26:14and celebrations going on at that hour of the night.
26:17And most likely she probably considered there was no danger.
26:23Up until the disaster itself, these people were having a great time.
26:30They were having fun. They were doing things together.
26:33They were singing. They were dancing.
26:36When the Titanic hit the iceberg, this was 20 minutes to 12.
26:41I should rise and you...
26:44Nora Fleming was celebrating her birthday.
26:46And she was singing on this fateful day.
26:51The stewards had told the Addergool 14 that there was nothing to worry about,
26:57that they were to stay in steerage and above all, stay calm.
27:01They were told that they would receive further instruction as soon as possible.
27:05Nora Fleming kept singing to help the situation and to help keep people at ease.
27:10As time went on, however, the Addergool 14 became more and more anxious.
27:22Stress began to increase and pressure began to show.
27:26However, they did their best to stay calm like they were told to by the stewards.
27:31And I think that lasted so long until they saw the slant of the ship, the way it was sinking.
27:44And that's where the panic started.
27:46And despite the panic, the Addergool group seemed very organized in this.
27:53The men came to find the women and realized we have to get out of here.
27:59We have to find a way to the light boat.
28:02The people in the steerage class weren't given access to the upper decks to get the boats.
28:07You could not get access to second class or first class from steerage.
28:12You had to go through gates and barriers and they were kept that way
28:15and they were manned by crew who were told to keep them down below until we had order.
28:20They knew from the beginning there weren't enough lifeboats for at least a thousand people that were on board that ship.
28:29But it was even worse because the lifeboats were set up in such a way that the first eight lifeboats were on first class deck space.
28:40Now, no other class was allowed in that area.
28:43So those first eight boats went off with almost entirely first class people.
28:52The Addergool group was very organized.
28:55The men got the women together and they started working up the decks.
29:00And the only way to do that until you got to the uppermost deck was by literally putting women in your hands and boosting them up onto the next deck.
29:12So literally you had three or four decks you had to ascend to get to the boat deck.
29:20And it was only the last one that there was a stairway that could be used to get onto the boat deck itself.
29:27It has to be called heroic, I think.
29:30When the Addergool group got to the lifeboat decks, there were only three lifeboats left.
29:37In the panic, the group lost each other in the crowd.
29:41Catherine and Mary Burke each got a place on a lifeboat.
29:48But when John Burke was refused access, both Catherine and Mary got out of the lifeboat to stay with him.
29:54Annie Kate Kelly was put on a lifeboat in their place.
30:01I should not have been saved, except for Mrs. Burke's refusal to leave her husband.
30:09I looked up and saw my cousin watching, holding in his hands his rosary beads, which he raised to bless me.
30:18He was among the many that went down with the ship.
30:22On the other side of Titanic, Delia McDermott had got on a lifeboat.
30:26Then the most extraordinary thing happened.
30:29She realised she had left her hat behind her.
30:36She got off the lifeboat and returned back into steerage of Titanic to get her hat.
30:41When she got back on deck, all the lifeboats had gone.
30:48She then lowered herself down a rope and jumped 15 feet into the last lifeboat that was being lowered away.
30:55And she survived.
30:58The hat was something that was so important to her.
31:02It was the one thing that she had, that she valued, that she wanted to bring to America.
31:08I'm sure she thought, I won't be able to afford another one like that when I get to America.
31:15And I cannot chance it.
31:17So I'll take the, I'll take the chance and I'll go back and see if I can get it.
31:21And most likely not realising the dangerous situation that she was in.
31:26On another part of the ship, Annie McGowan also managed to get a place on a lifeboat.
31:31I'm related to Annie McGowan.
31:33She remembered being grabbed, get in the lifeboat, get in the lifeboat.
31:37And she was scared because she didn't know what was happening with her aunt.
31:41And she remembered hearing husbands and wives not wanting to be separated, screaming.
31:48She remembered when she was in the lifeboat that a man tried to get in the boat and said,
31:55if you don't let me in, I'm going to tip over the whole boat.
31:59So they let him in the lifeboat.
32:01But her biggest concern was for her aunt and what had happened to her aunt.
32:06And I believe in the lifeboat they tried to reassure her and tell her that her aunt was on the next lifeboat.
32:15But she never ended up hearing what happened.
32:25All of a sudden she said it just busted in half.
32:40And she thought a boiler had broke and that's what caused it.
32:45And that's when she said, you really heard a lot of screaming.
32:47The lights completely go out, so it's pitch black.
33:03And then you hear the screams.
33:06That's when the screaming started.
33:10It was terrible.
33:12The salt water and the wind made my eyes bleed.
33:15The screams of the passengers left on the decks drifted over the water.
33:19It was horrible. Horrible noise. Horrindous noise. Unforgettable noise.
33:33And unforgettable cries and appeals and people were drowning.
33:36Those who actually enter the water.
33:43When you land in the water the temperature was zero to one degree.
33:46Most wouldn't be allowed to swim for a start.
33:48If there were a life jacket you can't swim with a life jacket on you.
33:51You float like a cork.
33:52The more you struggle the worse it becomes for you.
33:54Because you use up all your energy and you get cold rapidly.
33:57You last about 14-15 minutes and then you're sleeping to unconsciousness.
34:00And you're dead within about 20 minutes.
34:03Very few people that ended up in the water were survivors.
34:11We're talking about maybe two dozen at most.
34:15And the reason being the water was so cold.
34:20People did not die by drowning as many people think.
34:26Most of them had life belts on.
34:28They were above the level of the water.
34:31And the water was pretty clear that night.
34:33Pretty calm.
34:34The water was so cold they died of hypothermia.
34:38And died probably within 10 or 15 minutes at most.
34:42Of the time they went in the water.
34:44There were just a few stars out.
34:58There was no moon.
34:59So they drowned in the darkness.
35:01Which is worse again.
35:02So it was a horrible end for all the 1500 drowned.
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35:58Most of them got very good treatment from the hospital staff
36:03They were kind of special people because of what had happened to them
36:08But that wasn't necessarily true of the representatives of the White Star Line
36:15Annie Kate Kelly was my great aunt
36:18The doctor was quoted as saying he didn't think she would survive
36:22Every time she closed her eyes she would relive the tragedy all over again
36:26She couldn't eat, she couldn't drink
36:28She was just distraught
36:31Which was a real contrast from the way I knew her
36:34I knew her as a very forthright kind of person
36:39Very witty
36:42And with tremendous strength of character
36:45My mother was very, very stressed out
36:50And according to her two aunts, they couldn't even talk about the incident at all
36:55That she was very, very sick
36:57Delia McDermott was my grandmother
37:02She came on the Titanic with two girlfriends
37:05And both of them perished
37:07She was so traumatized by the sinking of the Titanic
37:10That anything that would remind her of it would cause her a lot of anguish
37:15As these people were recovering in St. Vincent's Hospital
37:20The White Star Line representatives very definitely took advantage of these people
37:26When they were ill, when they were not thinking properly, when they were in hysterics
37:32And would go into the rooms and have them sign papers
37:37And the papers basically said
37:40They would settle with the White Star Line for $25
37:45No matter how much they had lost on board
37:48No matter what kind of injuries they had had
37:51In other words, they were signing off everything to the White Star Line
37:55That they could have sued for later
37:57For $25
37:59Annie, Annie, Annie
38:01From the White Star Line
38:02We needed to sign this
38:05Ticket to Chicago
38:07Annie Kate Kelly was a very good example of this
38:17This happened to her
38:18She did sign the papers
38:20And she did get $25
38:22And that was the extent of what she got
38:26For her belongings
38:28And the ordeal she'd been through
38:31Mary Mangan did not survive the Titanic
38:42Her body was discovered on April 22nd
38:46It was the 61st body to be retrieved from the water
38:49And it was easily identified because of the jewellery that had been found in her effects
38:55In particular, there was a gold watch with her picture inside
39:01And her name was engraved inside Im Mangan
39:04And also engraved on the outside Im Mangan
39:06She had her engagement ring
39:09That was listed in her effects
39:11But later on there was a notation added that there was no ring in effects
39:16So the ring went missing at some stage
39:18It was never returned to the family
39:19Her body was buried at sea
39:22Her clothing was buried with her
39:24And they returned her personal effects to the family
39:27The reason that they buried some at sea and not others
39:31Was because some of the bodies were too decomposed
39:33And it would be difficult for embalming
39:36The still bodies have been found floating until as late as June 1912, the same year
39:41The bodies of the remaining ten of the Addergul group
39:46Delia Mahan
39:47Mary Canavan
39:50Pat Canavan
39:52Catherine McGowan
39:54John Burke
39:56Catherine Burke
39:58Mary Burke
39:59James Flynn
40:01Nora Fleming
40:03And Bridget O'Donoghue
40:06Were never found
40:09They didn't know in Larradon for a whole week what had happened
40:17They got wind after five days
40:19But the information was inaccurate for a start
40:22And it was exaggerated
40:23And then they couldn't give the proper story
40:25No one knew who drowned and who survived
40:27And then eventually the authorities had names and numbers
40:30In New York
40:32So it would have taken maybe eight, nine days for the news to come back to a household
40:35That their son and their daughter had not met in America
40:38When the news came
40:41The pain was insufferable
40:42And they could do nothing about it
40:44They had no body
40:45They had no grave to go to
40:47And it's very well described what happened
40:50It was being put of the people on the beds
40:53There were white snow white quilts
40:56And you could imagine all the crying and the neighbours coming
41:00And the pain was always there
41:02They went with that pain
41:03They died with that pain
41:05The important thing was to make a new life and get on with it
41:08Which they all did
41:09They all made a new life
41:10Graham, Mama, and Dad
41:31Had to be my sister's wedding, I'm sure
41:33Here, Annie McGowan
41:44Anne McGowan
41:45Baptized on
41:48July 9th, 1897
41:52Date of birth, July 5th
41:54However, remember the stories that she used to tell?
41:57Born at the stroke of midnight
41:58So we got to celebrate her birthday on July 4th
42:01She's the only person born between the 4th and the 5th
42:04What that means, I never could
42:06That's the truth
42:10Annie McGowan was my grandmother
42:13There's close to a hundred of us
42:16That would not be here
42:18If she had not survived the Titanic
42:20Annie McGowan was my mother
42:23And when she came here
42:25All she had was a nightgown, slippers, and a coat
42:29She was sick for quite a while
42:32And they were afraid that she would lose her mind
42:35If it was constantly brought up
42:37And then, of course, her aunt had died on the ship
42:40But once she started going on with her life
42:43And she got over the initial shock of
42:46The experience
42:49I mean, I don't think you ever really get over it
42:52But she led a normal life
42:55And then she went to secretarial school
42:58And she got a job
42:59And shortly after that
43:01She met my dad and they got married
43:03She had three girls
43:05My sister Fran
43:07My sister Jackie
43:08And myself
43:09My mother was a very strong lady
43:12A very feisty
43:13Determined person
43:16When she made up her mind to do something
43:19She did it
43:20Nothing was going to get in her way
43:21She was going to get it done
43:23She didn't like something she told you
43:25I discovered her newspapers in the drawer
43:30When I was a teenager
43:31She had the original newspapers
43:33About the sinking of the Titanic in the drawer
43:36And she never, ever talked about it prior to that
43:40And I asked my mother about it
43:42And she said, just put that away
43:43And never mind, don't talk about it
43:45And the next I heard was
43:47Just before I got married
43:48And we discovered that this was true
43:51She was really on the Titanic
43:52But she still would not talk about it
43:55Growing up, she was terrified of the water
43:59My mother never went in the water, ever
44:01Never wanted us to go in the water, either
44:04Delia McDermott was my grandmother
44:12Delia has 34 descendants
44:15And 30 of them are alive right now
44:17Delia married my grandfather, John Lynch
44:20And he was a Galway man
44:22She met him and married him in America
44:24And they lived in Jersey City
44:26And he worked on the Central Jersey Railroad
44:30His whole life
44:30They had three children
44:32Delia was just a very quiet person
44:35Very reserved
44:36She never initiated conversations
44:38I can picture her sitting in her rocking chair
44:42In the kitchen
44:42And I also picture her with a rosary bead
44:45She was, you know, she was always praying
44:47She ran a boarding house
44:49Where she lived on Union Street
44:51She would be up early
44:52She would attend daily mass
44:54And she would tend to her home
44:56She was a real homebody
44:58For me, my grandmother never spoke about the Titanic
45:01And I learned from an early age on
45:04Not to ask her about the Titanic
45:06Perhaps it's a feeling of anybody
45:08Who survives a disaster
45:10Where others have lost their lives
45:13And you wonder, why did God spare me?
45:16Especially for her
45:17After she got herself up
45:20Out of a lifeboat
45:21And was able to get back
45:23Into a second lifeboat
45:24Which was amazing
45:26Because I'm sure by the time
45:27She got into the second lifeboat
45:29There were people struggling
45:31To find lifeboats
45:32And to get into one
45:33And she was fortunate enough
45:35To get into one
45:35Forty minutes before it sank
45:37She never spoke about going home again
45:39Annie Kate Kelly
45:46Annie Kate Kelly lived with her sisters
45:47I think she was there for a time
45:50Before she was able to
45:51Pull herself together
45:53And, you know, get out
45:54And get a job, you know
45:57I probably saw her
45:59Very regularly once I came here
46:01Annie Kate Kelly lived and worked in Chicago
46:04As a milliner for nine years
46:06Then, as a direct result
46:08Of her experiences on Titanic
46:10She completely changed
46:12The direction of her life
46:13Annie Kate Kelly always questioned
46:18Why she was saved
46:21When so many others
46:22Wealthier
46:24Better equipped in life
46:26Didn't survive
46:28And she always felt a calling
46:31And ended up giving her life to the Lord
46:34And became a nun
46:36And was a teaching nun
46:38For most of her life
46:39Sister Patrick Joseph
46:42She took my father's name
46:43He was Patrick Joseph also
46:46She said, well, I decided
46:48If I wanted to make a life for myself
46:51I had to put the Titanic behind me
46:53And move on
46:55She taught in many of the grammar schools
46:58In the Chicago area
47:00She was a very straight-laced lady
47:02Very fond of family
47:04And very into her students
47:07A lot of young people
47:08Actually kept in touch with her
47:10Those whom she had taught
47:12Until she died
47:13The village of Laherdon in Ireland
47:28Still feels the pain of the Titanic tragedy
47:31A hundred years on
47:32The story of the Adarghul 14
47:35Nearly died completely
47:36With the last generation in Laherdon
47:38The pain of their loss
47:40Was so intense
47:41That the villagers
47:42Stopped talking about it completely
47:44There was bitterness
47:45Around the area afterwards
47:46And then people stopped talking about it
47:49Deliberately stopped talking about it
47:51Firstly, because it broke their hearts
47:52Firstly, because it disturbed them greatly
47:53Having lost somebody
47:54Secondly, there was a possibility
47:56There was money owed
47:57And somebody may have come
47:59Looking for owed money
48:00And it got bitter
48:02And then they stopped talking about it
48:04And that's why the story
48:05Suddenly began to disappear
48:07And that's why it wasn't known
48:09About a generation later
48:10Because of this
48:12A lot of documented evidence
48:13Of the 14
48:14Was lost over the years
48:16However, in the last decade
48:18The people of Adarghul
48:20Have begun to talk about
48:21This history again
48:22In recent years
48:24They have begun to embrace
48:26This legacy
48:26They are now actively
48:28Recovering this history
48:29And there's evidence of this
48:31All around the village of Laherdon
48:33In the last decade
48:35The people of Laherdon
48:36Have been busy
48:37Travelling and communicating
48:38With people around the world
48:40Collecting, rebuilding
48:42And archiving the documents
48:43And records of the Adarghul 14
48:46This is Mary Mangan's watch
48:49Which was recovered
48:50From the Titanic
48:51It was found
48:52Around Mary's neck
48:54On a chain
48:55At the back here then
48:57I've got the inscription
48:58Of Mary Mangan
49:01And she was probably
49:02Just looking at it
49:03For the times
49:04For the train
49:05Thinking how long
49:07Have I got left
49:08Before we get to the Titanic
49:09The watch stopped
49:11At 20 past two
49:12It stopped when the Titanic
49:14Sank into the water
49:15We know that Mary Mangan
49:17Would have gone into the water
49:18At that time
49:18It's just amazing to have it
49:20Relatives and residents
49:25With an interest in the Titanic
49:26Are constantly working
49:28In different ways
49:29To commemorate the Adarghul 14
49:31Obviously we want to include
49:34The ship sinking
49:35You can see the stern of the ship
49:38But the most intriguing
49:40Of all Laherdon's commemorations
49:42Takes place here every April
49:44On the 14th of April
49:51At 2am
49:52A candlelit procession
49:53Slowly winds its way
49:55Through the village
49:56To the local church
49:57Here a ceremony is held
50:03This is a ritual
50:05Created by the people
50:07Of Laherdon
50:07To unite the community
50:09And help them
50:10To tell their story
50:11Together
50:12The story of how
50:1414 of their ancestors
50:15Left this village
50:16100 years ago
50:18To seek hope
50:19And a better life in America
50:21But never got there
50:22At exactly 2.20am
50:27The time Titanic
50:28Finally disappeared
50:30Into the sea
50:30The relatives of the Adarghul 14
50:35Ring the church bell
50:36For each of the 14
50:38The people of Adarghul
50:40Are telling their story
50:42Once again
50:43There's a録 of Adarghul 14
50:5214 Naari
50:5314 Naari
50:5514 Naari
50:5819 Naari
50:59אותו
51:0015 Naari
51:0120 Naari
51:0215 Naari
51:0319 Naari
51:0419 Naari
51:0615 Naari
51:0719 Naari
51:0815 Naari
51:0919 Naari
51:10The night
51:1120 Naari
51:1123 Naari
51:12Amen.
51:42Amen.
52:12Amen.
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