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The power and the glory that was Belfast

Before the Troubles hijacked its reputation, the city was renowned for its linen industry and great shipyards, responsible for an eighth of the global shipbuilding trade

The Titanic on the stocks at the Harland & Woolf shipyard, Belfast. [Getty Images]

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