Northern Ireland comedian Patrick Kielty will embark on his new stand-up tour Borderline next year and it includes eight Belfast dates.
The Co Down man will be back on the road in 2022 where he hopes to “make some sense” of where the future of the UK is heading in a post-Brexit landscape.
Kielty, 50, will explore his homeland’s recent history and give his personal take on Brexit’s new borders, national identity and the future of the Union.
In his first UK tour since his critically acclaimed 2015 live show ‘Help’, he will play 30 dates across the country, including eight shows at Belfast's Lyric Theatre from March 15—20 2022.
Kielty said: “The world’s been turned on its head the past few years and thanks to Brexit, we’re more obsessed with borders and national identity than ever.
“With Northern Ireland at the centre of it all, it feels like the right time to get back on stage and try to make some sense of where we’re heading.”
Kielty recently presented the programme One Hundred Years Of Union on BBC Two which explored how the trauma of Northern Ireland’s past is shaping its future to mark the country’s centenary year.
In 2018, Kielty presented the documentary My Dad, The Peace Deal And Me for the channel, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
It explored the state of Northern Ireland two decades on from the Agreement and Kielty discussed the killing of his father and the effect it had on him.
The comedian, from Dundrum, married English TV presenter Cat Deeley in 2012 and they have two children.
Tickets for the Belfast leg of the tour, priced from £12 - £28, are available here
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