Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, the second-largest on the island of Ireland. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco processing, rope-making, and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the world’s biggest and most productive shipyard.
Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. It has sustained a major aerospace and missiles industry since the mid 1930s. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast Ireland’s biggest city at the beginning of the 20th century.
Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland.
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Glengall St 10, Belfast
Train station –
Glengall St 10, Belfast
Europa Business Centre, 10 Glengall St, Belfast BT12 5AH