Ever since it first opened its doors in March 2012, Titanic Belfast has become one of the most immediately recognisable and massively popular visitor attractions on the island of Ireland, amassing ...

Already an established industrial heavyweight of international standing, the Northern Ireland port city of Belfast had acquired a new speciality by the end of the 19th century - shipbuilding.

The launch of Titanic in May 1911 was the peak of Belfast’s golden age of shipbuilding. Titanic was the largest man-made object ever to have taken to the seas. Harland and Wolff employed ...