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Belfast and Industry

Belfast, a city of Industry

Read a Victorian man's impression of Belfast.

As told by Samuel Smiles who wrote an account of his visits to Ireland in 1884.

The Titanic - built in Belfast

On Thursday the 1st June, 1911, the Belfast Newsletter published an account of the Titanic being launched in Belfast harbour.

Ship building in Belfast

Belfast's ship building industry as told by J.E. Harland in 1884 (Harland of the shipyard Harland & Wolff which built the famous but ill fated ocean liner, Titanic, amongst others.


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