Senan Molony is an award-winning journalist based in Dublin who works as a political correspondent for the Irish Independent. As crime correspondent with The Star, he was the first national specialist to arrive on the scene of the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder in 1996, where he was met by local journalist Ian Bailey, the newspaper's 'stringer', who later became the prime suspect in the case.
Molony was at the forefront of crime journalism in Ireland for many years, from covering the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin to giving evidence against the Gilligan gang in the Special Criminal Court. He has reported variously for the Evening Herald, Irish Daily Mail and Irish Independent on tribunals, trials and murder investigations in Ireland and Britain.
A 'Scoop of the Year' winner at the inaugural National Newspapers of Ireland Awards, he is author of bestselling book The Phoenix Park Murders about the infamous political assassinations of 1882. Senan has also written books about the Titanic, Lusitania and other ships, and devised and presented a number of television documentaries in Ireland, England and the United States.
A student of James Joyce and author of a book about Ulysses, he has long earned a living writing about politics at Leinster House.
Why is so much heroism attached to the sinking of the Titanic? Why do we accord impossible glory to the miserable, misbegotten drowining of the equivalent of a small town? What process led to the creation of champions? Who were the real heroes, and how were they overlooked? What did society - and the press - do with an overriding need for blame? By identifying the fable-making, and finally throwing off a blanket of boasting, this book enables a fresh, sharp focus on history's most famous shipwreck.
We see into the nature of prejudice, public values and political and national motives. It explores the light and the dark of what we thin we know: about the engineers, the musicians, the Captain, his officers, owners and officialdom - as well as the sinking itself and society's curious 'celebration' of abject catastrophe. It also looks at sacrificial victims, in particular the character of Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian, a man tarred with abandoning fifteen hundred people to their fate. Backed up with a new photographic archive and bolstered by a series of contemporary extracts to support its arguments, this is Titanic history presented in an entirely new and authentic light.
Título : Titanic: Victims and Villains
EAN : 9780752467559
Editorial : The History Press
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