One problem about whether or not the IRA started the fire. Titanic was built 1910-1912. The IRA did not exist until 1919. Northern Ireland (the british ruled part) was not established until 1921.
Therefore The IRA could not have started the fire as they did not exist. Belfast was still part of Ireland when Titanic was built, and hence an "irish" ship, not a british one, so there would not have been any point in the IRA destroying an irish ship had they existed back then.

Incidentally, Northern Ireland isn't a warzone. The crime rate is actually one of the lowest in the UK.

Boilerroom, what other room are you talking about?

Boilerroom, what other room are you talking about?

are we talking about the fire in that room, or the boiler room?

Quite, the fire was small combustion and was not on the scale that people may imagine, the idea of a raging blaze is a bit missleading, and again why pick Titanic, torhcing Olympic would have caused a larger blow,

I seriously doubt the coal bunker fire was the result of foul play. Smoldering fires in large collections of coal aren't uncommon; large loads and stockpilies of coal are usually kept wetted down to help minimize this.

And if it was arson/sabotage, why didn't the alleged arsonists/saboteurs just torch the whole ship?

northern ireland is a warzone, they are all idiots, war is stupid, ppl die and we are meant to get pleasure out of it by talking over a country or talking something back

we don't learn much in school. our country is so flippin self-centered that we apparently don't care to learn about what went on in the rest of the world. that sounds like the problems back in Piladelphis between...who was it?...the Blacks and the Jews I think. it may have been the irish though...anyways a lot of people got killed becuz of 2 different races hating each other

You obviously don't understand the trouble in northen ireland do you, if you did , you may understand it better, though that said I as a catholic do not support these supposed catholics in there ways of getting their own back as it where. They say there just doing what is right, blowing up a street, full of children etc is not the way to go about it,

what kind of idiot would try and burn doen a ship. that's just stupid