EE NEWS 11/04/2014.
On the afternoon of Friday 11th April 2014, 102 years to the day since the Titanic anchored in Cork Harbour, the Cobh Titanic Memorial Garden was officially opened. Situated at Cove Fort, the project is a collaboration between Cobh Town Council, the Cobh Titanic Centenary committee and Cobh Tourism and was funded by Cobh Town Council, Cork County Council, The County Cork Association of New York, Fáilte Ireland and South and East Cork Area Development Ltd (SECAD) through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the National Development Plan. The focal point of the garden is a Glass Memorial Wall, overlooking the final anchorage of RMS Titanic, onto which the names of the 123 passengers that boarded the Titanic at Queenstown are inscribed.
Cobh children Rebecca Flynn, Killian O'Rourke, Lily O'Rourke, Brian Wyse, Isabel O'Rourke and Rachel Wyse at the official opening of the memorial garden.
Pic; Larry Cummins,
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