History of the Jews in Ireland largest single shipyard in the Britain and Ireland. Edward Harland bought the shipyard for $5,000 from Hickson and Co in 1860/61 with funds from a Liverpool Jewish investor, G.C. Schwabe. Schwabe sent his nephew Gustave Wilhelm Wolff to Belfast to oversee the investment and the company assumed the name Harland and Wolff the following year, 1862. H&W built many large ships including the "Titanic" and the "Queen Mary". Well known Belfast Jews include: Ronald Appleton QC, Crown Prosecutor during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, who was elected President of the Belfast Hebrew Congregation and served in that post until he
RMS Titanic in popular culture backdrop for a romance in Danielle Steel's 1991 novel "No Greater Love", in which a young woman becomes the sole caregiver for her siblings after her parents and fiancee die in the sinking. In 1996 NBC adapted it into a TV movie of the same name, which Anderson characterises as "rather sterile and perfunctory." "Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912" by Ellen Emerson White is a fictional diary of a girl travelling on the Titanic - part of the Dear America series, in which each book is a fictional diary set at