These images are from a solo exhibition held in the Andrews Gallery, Titanic Centre, Belfast in 2012 to mark the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

This body of work celebrates the unsung heroes who toiled in the shipyards of these islands to build great ships like the Titanic.

Deirdre’s grandfather and granduncle worked in the Harland and Wolff shipyard at the time of the building of the Titanic.