NYC Speaker Christine Quinn speaks about her grandmother’s survival on the Titanic

Wow! Amazing story! My great grandmother, Katherine Gilnagh Manning from Killoe, Co. Longford, Ireland survived the Titanic as well! All thanks to Mr. James Farrell she along with two sisters and another girl were let through a barricade and to safety by insisting to crewmen blocking their passage, swiftly complied but, locked the gate behind the girls. Unfortunately, my great grandmother's hero perished in the icy seas. To all those poor souls, may you forever rest in peace. This is such a tragedy that it will never be forgotten! ♥

PhlutiePhan! I think your British naval colleagues in the Med. told you what you what they intuited you wanted to hear. Ireland has never been far anything, left or right. Always been ideologically medicore. Keep taking the prozac. The radical socialists (formerly 'commies') are busy living in the real world of the early 21 st. century. Not the Cold War of the mid-20th. As for the Titanic. As a teeshirt in Carroll's Irish Guift Store in a loyalist part of Belfast says: Built by Irishmen. Sunk by an English man. To which I would add - "with a company executive breathing down his neck to break all previous trans-Atlantic crossing records.

You can bet darn well that Christine Quinn does not wear a meal pinned to her bra. She doesn't wear one. She burned it long ago. As president of the City Council, she is openly gay and quite anti-Catholic at that. It seems very realistic to state that she is after the Catholic vote even though she hates Catholicity. I have been to the last five St. Patrick's Day Parades, am a Navy veteran, and have an Irish grandmother who had a third grade education. Her father came to this country after killing a black-and-tan and changing his name from Breslin. Christine Quinn is a radical socialist and I am quite sure that New York City can do fine without her as mayor. Her political ambitions are in the "are you kidding me" variety. The media says yes. Reality says way no.

I think you may have become a little too worried about trying to prove me wrong, Bythebay?

Sounds like a good yarn to me but it got MS Quinn some ink and attention. I wonder what is pinned to her bra.

I can believe she didn't speak about it. That's how the Irish were, for the most part, unable to speak about their tragedy. There was so much anti-Irish (sentiment)at the time. It must have been excruciating to have to repress your feelings like that, yet it probably protected them from further trauma over their ordeal, in a way. Oró cailín cróga! Hail, brave girl!