When we think about the Titanic, most people immediately remember its tragic sinking in 1912. However, long before it became a maritime legend, RMS Titanic represented the industrial power and ambition of one city: Belfast. Here, at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, thousands of workers helped create one of the most famous ships in history. But the story of the Titanic is also the story of a city that was once one of the world’s leading centres of industry and shipbuilding. Today

For more than three decades, Northern Ireland lived through one of the most complex conflicts in modern European history: the Troubles — A period that deeply shaped Belfast and the entire region. From the late 1960s until 1998, violence affected thousands of lives. Bombings, political divisions, military presence, segregated neighbourhoods and deep mistrust between communities became part of everyday reality in cities like Belfast. The conflict mainly involved two communities