Titanic Belfast March 2018. The building is located on Queen's Island, an area of land at the entrance of Belfast Lough which was reclaimed from the water in the mid-19th century. It was used for many years by the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, who built huge slipways and graving docks to accommodate the simultaneous construction of "Olympic" and "Titanic". The decline of shipbuilding in Belfast left much of the area derelict. Most of the disused structures on the island were demolished. A number of heritage features were given listed status, including the "Olympic" and "Titanic" slipways and graving docks, as well as
RMS Titanic in popular culture an album by the singer Kirsty MacColl. The Belgian dance company Plan K performed a work called "Titanic" at the 1994 Belfast Festival in which a flotilla of refrigerators – in real life part of the cargo aboard "Titanic" – stands in for the drifting mass of ice that ultimately destroys the ship. The British composer Gavin Bryars created a multimedia work called "The Sinking of the Titanic" (1969), based on the conceit that "sounds never completely die but merely grow fainter and fainter. What if the music of the "Titanic"s band might still be playing 2,500 fathoms under the