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CLONES CONNECTION WITH TITANIC TRAGEDY
13 Apr 2012 Comments Off on CLONES CONNECTION WITH TITANIC TRAGEDY
In the week in which the tide of life throughout the world pauses a while in its course to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912, it is likely that fresh flowers will be laid upon the grave in a Canadian cemetery where rests a Clones man who perished in the great maritime disaster. Lines written by Augustus M Toplady for the enduring 1776 hymn Rock of Ages embellish the marble memorial: “Nothing in my hand I ...
