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Titanic iceberg on its way to Belfast PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 23 February 2005
IN a macabre move to celebrate the building of the Titanic, Belfast plans to tow an iceberg into the shipyard where the ill-fated liner was launched.

The idea received the backing of the city's lord mayor yesterday.

It involves hauling an iceberg from Norway to put Belfast's redeveloped Titanic Quarter on the tourist map by 2008.

Rita Duffy, an artist who proposed the idea, said: "The iceberg and the wreck of the Titanic is the main story of Belfast - the sad, interrupted journey of disbelief and disappointment. The iceberg could become a symbol of hope as it melts." The Titanic was launched on April 2, 1912, and sank 13 days later with the loss of 1,500 lives after hitting an iceberg in the north Atlantic.

Mrs Duffy has met oil rig workers in Newfoundland who regularly tow some of the 3,000 icebergs that drift in the area away from rigs.

She said the plan would make the world sit up and take notice of Belfast.

She has already secured backing from the International Fund for Ireland and the Irish consulate in New York and will be looking for funds from the Arts Council in Northern Ireland.

Una Reilly, co-founder of the Belfast Titanic Society, said: "I do not think it is in very good taste. "

Thomas Harding

http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/5052801?view=Eircomnet
 
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