The painting

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0:03:49 > 0:03:56.

0:04:05 > 0:04:08'When I was young, growing up in East Belfast, of course the shipyard

0:04:08 > 0:04:10'dominated everyone's life.

0:04:10 > 0:04:14'My father, and my uncle who lived next door,

0:04:14 > 0:04:15'both went to work in Harland and Wolff.'

0:04:15 > 0:04:18Each night, I met them at the corner of the street

0:04:18 > 0:04:20with my jotter, begging them to draw me a boat.

0:04:20 > 0:04:23For me, this lovely 1912 picture by Joseph Carey,

0:04:23 > 0:04:26entitled Holywood Golf Links,

0:04:26 > 0:04:28works on two quite different levels.

0:04:28 > 0:04:31We're standing on the steep slopes of Holywood golf course,

0:04:31 > 0:04:34then we look just a little more closely

0:04:34 > 0:04:36and right at the centre of the picture

0:04:36 > 0:04:38we make out a large four-funnelled ship.

0:04:38 > 0:04:41With the realisation that this is the Titanic,

0:04:41 > 0:04:45I think we feel a great sense of tragedy, a great sense of sorrow.

0:04:45 > 0:04:48Because unlike the golfers below us,

0:04:48 > 0:04:50we know that on her maiden voyage

0:04:50 > 0:04:51she's going to sink,

0:04:51 > 0:04:55and the very name Titanic is going to become synonymous with disaster.