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“... heroes who had suffered conspicuous deaths in lost battles. In Heroic Failure and the British, Stephanie Barczewski, with all the postcolonial detachment that comes naturally to an American academic, gives a long and stirring list: from that feisty Ulsterman, Rollo Gillespie, strutting alone to a hero’s death against the Gurkhas at Kalunga (his men ...”

“... his watch, stopped at 1.50. We’d love to do more, a local official said. Belfast has done more. Stephanie Barczewski quotes an editorial from the Belfast Telegraph of July 1999: ‘In marketing parlance, the story of the liner is a unique selling point for Northern Ireland, and could open the door to thousands of tourists.’ The Titanic, built in the ...”