Cobh Heritage Center To Mark Jeremiah Burke Titanic letter Donation

Jeremiah Burke aged 19 years from Ballinoe, White’s Cross Cork , boarded the Titanic at Queenstown, his final destination was to be Massachusetts, USA. Jeremiah Burke is the passenger said to have thrown a message in a bottle from the decks of the sinking Titanic, and the bottle washed up a year later on the shoreline near his family home near Glanmire. The note read ‘From Titanic, Goodbye All, Burke of  Glanmire Cork’.

The note has been in the treasured possession of the Burke family until recently when a member of the  family Cllr Mary Woods of Midleton donated it to Cobh Heritage Centre. The note was carefully conserved and now forms part of the Titanic exhibition in the Centre along with the photographic and military medals of Titanic photographer Fr Frank Browne.

A reception will be held in the Cobh Heritage Centre on Tuesday evening , October 25th at 5pm to officially thank the Burke and Woods family for donating this piece of Cork history.

Enquiries to Debbie Walsh, General and Marketing Manager Cobh Heritage Centre  021 4813591 or DWalsh@cobhheritage.com