Bertha Mulvihill
| Bertha Mulvihill | |
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| Born | Bridget Mulvihill 1886 Coosan, County Westmeath, Ireland |
| 💀Died | 1959 Providence, Rhode Island, US1959 |
| Burial place | St Francis Cemetery, Pawtucket, Rhode Island |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Irish |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👪 Relatives | Maud Mitchell (sister), Herbert Mitchell (brother-in-law) |
Bridget Mulvihill (1886–1959), also known as Bertha E. Mulvihill or Bertha Mulvihill Noon, was an Irish survivor of the sinking of the Titanic.[1][2][3][4] The Sligo Champion has described her as "one of the most colourful of the Irish survivors of the shipwreck".[5]
Mulvihill was born in Coosan, County Westmeath in 1886 to Martin and Eliza Mulvihill. She had eleven siblings. One of her sisters was IRA Intelligence Officer Maud Mitchell.[6] In 1910, Mulvihill was residing in Central Park West, New York City. She returned to Ireland in 1911 aboard the Lusitania to attend her sister Kate's wedding. She sought to surprise her fiance and secretly bought a third class ticket to sail from Queenstown to New York on the Titanic. Mulvihill was nearly thrown from her berth upon the ship's collision with the iceberg.[7] On her way to the Lifeboat No.15, Mulvihill broke her ribs. She lost many of her belongings, including a picture of Robert Emmet, which she had received at the play of the same name by Fianna Eireann.[8] She was transfixed by a small iceberg which repeatedly clipped the side of the lifeboat.[9] She wrote a letter about the disaster aboard the Carpathia, which she sent to her sister, Maud.[10] Mulvihill complained about the White Star Line in correspondence to her family in Ireland[11] and she herself never sailed back to Ireland again after the disaster. In April 1956 Mulvihill was featured in the Providence Journal on the occasion of the publication of A Night to Remember. She was extensively quoted regarding her memories of the Titanic. Mulvihill was 24 years old at the time of the voyage and had travelled with Margaret Daly and Eugene Daly (unrelated).[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
She married Henry Noon in Providence on 12 August 1912. Mulvihill Noon died of cancer in Providence in October 1959. She is buried in St Francis Cemetery, Pawtucket, Rhode Island.[15][21][22]
In 2013, a hat which was given to her upon arriving in New York was displayed at an exhibition at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra, County Down.[23][24][25][26]
References[edit]
- ↑ "There are more Irish links to the Titanic than it being built on this island (part 2)". Carlow Nationalist. 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ "The Sinking of the Titanic (Part Two) – Great Disasters". Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ Fitch, Tad; Layton, J. Kent; Wormstedt, Bill (2013-07-15). On a Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-1439-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Behe, George (2012-02-29). On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-8305-4. Search this book on
- ↑ "Colourful survivor Bertha provides another link with 'Sligo Champion'". independent. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ Mitchell, Maud (1993). The Man with the Long Hair. Glenwood Publications. Search this book on
- ↑ Wilson, Andrew (2012). Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-7157-5. Search this book on
- ↑ homepage.eircom.net http://homepage.eircom.net/~thetitanic/bertha.htm. Retrieved 2020-11-28. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Mayo, Jonathan (2016-03-17). Titanic: Minute by Minute. Short Books. ISBN 978-1-78072-270-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Molony, Senan (2000). The Irish Aboard Titanic. Wolfhound Press. ISBN 978-0-86327-805-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Halpern, Samuel; Akers-Jordan, Cathy; Behe, George; Beveridge, Bruce; Chirnside, Mark; Fitch, Tad; Gittins, Dave; Hall, Steve; Mitcham, Lester J. (2016-09-08). Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-6941-3. Search this book on
- ↑ "Turtle Bunbury - Writer and Historian: Published Works - Features: Ballintemple: Ancient World, Ancient Fish". www.turtlebunbury.com. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ "A Titanic Mystery – A Question of Fired Shots and Murdered Passengers". www.titanicuniverse.com. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ "Remembering a Coosan childhood". Westmeath Independent. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Bridget (Bertha) Mulvihill : Titanic Survivor". Encyclopedia Titanica. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ Fitch, Tad (2004). "Coosan Coleen; Bertha Mulvihill, A Titanic Survivor Story". The Titanic Commutator. Issue 167.
- ↑ Post, Summit (2020-10-22). "New Evidence Claims Iceberg Did Not Sink The Titanic". SUMMIT POST NEWS. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ "10 Lesser-Known Items Aboard the Titanic". Listverse. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ Geller, Judith B. (1998). Titanic: Women and Children First. Patrick Stephens. ISBN 978-1-85260-594-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Jessop, Violet (2007). Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess. History Press Limited. ISBN 978-0-7509-4663-6. Search this book on
- ↑ "Bertha Mulvihill - Titanic Passenger" (PDF). The Mulvihill Voice. Autumn 2006.
- ↑ "Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic". IrishCentral.com. 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ "Dressed for disaster... the clothes two very different ladies wore as Titanic went down". belfasttelegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ Young, David (2013-08-13). "Titanic passenger's robe goes on display". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ "Tale of 2 survivors". Belfast Times. 2013-08-12. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
- ↑ "Passenger's robe joins Titanic display". The Irish News. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
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