ABSTRACT
To assist readers unfamiliar with the North Belfast vernacular, a link to the full script of the performance is also provided along with the full video itself. Tiger’s Bay is located at the heart of North Belfast where a hugely disproportionate number of the fatalities attributed to the Troubles occurred. As Tomlinson suggests, it may be that ‘the conflict – as a result of imprisonment, migration and the individual and collective stresses of violence – exacerbated a number of trends contributing to social isolation’. Tiger’s Bay Men’s Group was established in 2013 in association with the Lighthouse, a Belfast charity which supports people affected by suicide. Towards the end of the performance, a cordon is stretched across the map to represent the ‘Peace Wall’ that divides today’s Tiger’s Bay from streets which the Protestant population formerly thought of as part of their area and which now have a predominantly Catholic population.
