Clodagh Finn: Why we need people like the ‘unsinkable Molly Brown’
Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown helped others board Titanic lifeboats ahead of herself. Right: The poster for a movie about her. Picture: US Library of Congress
Clodagh Finn is a journalist, writer and collector of stories. Her recent book, The Irish in the Resistance, co-authored with John Morgan, shines a light on the forgotten contributions of the Irish who resisted Hitler during WW2.
THE anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, which fell on Sunday, is a date that continues to resonate for many reasons, not least because of the deep hubris in claiming the state-of-the-art ship was “practically unsinkable”.
It was tempting fortune, then, to attach the same adjective to one of the disaster’s 710 survivors, but the Irish-American woman known as the “the unsinkable Molly Brown” proved to be irrepressible in the years after she helped others board Lifeboat number 6 ahead of herself.
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