Shortly after arriving in Ireland from the United States, the central protagonist of Anne
Haverty's novel The Free and Easy (2006), Tom Blessman, explores the cityscape of Dublin …

The recent success of the Marriage Equality campaign in the Republic of Ireland has
highlighted the underdeveloped historiography of the Irish LGBT movement. Current …

This chapter reads the Irish reception of Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart (2012) as
symptomatic of widespread resistance to any reckoning with the legacy of neoliberalism in …

'Is the rectum a grave?'1 Leo Bersani's question was a foundational one for the field of
Queer Theory as it developed in the United States in the late 1980s and early 90s in the …

Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction offers an original and much-needed study of Irish Lesbian
fiction. Evaluating a wide body of Irish lesbian fiction ranging from the Victorian era to the …

Though 'progressive'campaigns for social change have facilitated an expanded view of
Irishness, bisexualities continue to remain outside of the remit of the boundaries of Irish …

As the first author to openly discuss homosexuality in Irish literature, Mary Dorcey has
created numerous scenarios of representation and recognition for the LGBTQ+ community …

This chapter utilises the findings from focus group discussion with four gay Traveller men
that took place in April 2016 in Galway, Ireland, as part of a project called 'Mental Health and …

This article examines the unlikely ways that media celebrity enabled priests and nuns in
Ireland to make gay and lesbian identities visible. Despite the fact that sex among men was …