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Mon 09 Sep 2008A home for art in Belfast's stained soul
The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts is taking over the Titanic Drawing Offices for its annual exhibition. And the historic shipyard building would be an appropriate location for a permanent Belfast gallery, according to the show's curators.
A GROUP OF tourists who took a walking tour of Belfast's old shipyard site a couple of weeks ago will be telling their own Titanicghost story by now. In the middle of what is now a vast building site, the redbrick Drawing Office building still stands, a century old, its elegantly curved roof sprouting butterfly bushes.
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