Real-life love story which inspired characters in Titanic among artefacts digitised in Cobh

Luke, aged 8, and Charlie Mullen, 4, explore some of the memorabilia associated with Irish emigration which have been donated to and digitised at the Cobh Heritage Centre. Pictures:  Chani Anderson

Artefacts linked to Ireland’s remarkable story of emigration, including the real-life love story which inspired the characters of Jack and Rose in the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic, have been digitised by a heritage centre in Cork Harbour, from where thousands of emigrants set sail.

The Cobh Heritage Centre, in the town’s restored former Victorian railway station, says it has finally completed the massive two-year digitisation project to catalogue every single one of its many thousands of artefacts.