A major traditional music festival in Belfast has concluded with a giant céilí on the slipway where the Titanic was built.
This is the fifth year of Belfast Tradfest and organisers are hoping to host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2026.
Some of the leading exponents of traditional Irish music have participated, including award-winning singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and renowned whistle player Mary Bergin.
Organiser Dónal O'Connor said 20,000 people were estimated to have attended concerts, workshops, talks and sessions across the city over the week.
There were 14 sell-out concerts, 62 sessions and 45 afternoon events as well as a summer school which attracted 550 students, a quarter of them from outside Ireland.
Big names from the world of music including Scottish fiddle player John McCusker, who has just finished recording with Eric Clapton, and guitarist John Doyle, musical director for folk legend Joan Baez, spent the week tutoring students.
Mr O'Connor said the city of Belfast had a rich blend of musical tradition to draw on.
"We've a unique soundscape here with the flute, the fife, the drum, the fiddle and the bodhrán."
"It's something we want to bring to people and bring people together through and we celebrate traditional music in a wonderful way doing it."
Belfast City Council is hoping to bid for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2026.
It's estimated it could bring a million people onto the streets of the city, double the crowd that came to see the Tall Ships in the city in 2015.
Mr O'Connor said it could be a "game-changer" for the city.
"We think Belfast has a good chance and as part of that bid we hope to include a world record attempt at the world's biggest céilí.
"The record is held by Cork with 8,000 dancers. We hope to have 10,000 dancing the Siege of Ennis here at the Titanic Slipway - that's something we're building towards."
