Belfast is famous for many reasons, not least its murals brought about by The Troubles that gripped Northern Ireland from the late 1960s until the “Good Friday” Agreement of 1998. But less well known is an intriguing network of streets in the inner-south of Belfast known as the Holy Land.

While her days were numbered from the outset, Titanic was a legend during her own lifetime, and has become increasingly immortalised ever since. In this article, we take a look at the famous liner’s origins, from the abandoned Drawing Office and slipways of Harland & Wolff to the murals of east Belfast and the awesome Titanic Quarter that is rising from the dereliction.

The RMS Titanic is without doubt the most famous ocean liner in history and everyone knows how the story ends in 1912 – at the bottom of the North Atlantic, several hundred nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland. But few know the story of the Olympic class liner’s birth, or that the Titanic began life on the rather sorry looking concrete slipway, pictured above, in a Belfast shipyard.