Sexuality in Ireland 1900-2020

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'Sexuality in Ireland, 1900-2020' will explore the impact and legacy of events surrounding partition on life today

About this event

'Sexuality in Ireland, 1900-2020' is the first in a series of events from the Nerve Centre's Creative Centenaries project exploring the legacy of partition and the formation of Northern Ireland.

This event will be chaired by Dr Tom Hulme (Queens University Belfast), featuring a talk titled ‘Gay Life at the Time of Partition’.

Dr Hulme will be joined by Ulster Unionist Party minister and civil rights activist Jeffrey Dudgeon, Sinn Féin councillor and Here NI Coordinator for the LGBT Heritage Project Mary Ellen Campbell, and University College Dublin’s Páraic Kerrigan.

Dr Hulme is a Senior Lecturer at the School of History at Queen's University Belfast, currently leading the Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation project, funded by the AHRC. Dr Hulme’s research into LGBTQ+ history in Northern Ireland has grown from his interest in cities and the popular past, and he is an active supporter of LGBTQ+ equality. Dr Hulme sits on the committee of the LGBTQ+ Staff Network at Queen’s University Belfast.

Joining Dr Hulme in speaking on 20th century Irish LGBTQ+ history will be author of Roger Casement – The Black Diaries, with a Study of his Background, Sexuality, and Irish Political Life (3rd Edition, 2019), Jeffrey Dudgeon (MBE). Jeffrey will explore the history of sexuality in Ireland between 1960s-1990s.

Rounding off the history of the past century, University College Dublin Teaching Fellow Dr Páraic Kerrigan and Here NI coordinator for the LGBT Heritage Project, Mary Ellen Campbell will explore the contemporary history of LGBTQ+ groups in Ireland. Mary Ellen will also delve into the crucial work of the HERe NI organisation, dedicated to the support of lesbian and bisexual women in Northern Ireland.

This event is FREE and will be held as a Zoom Webinar. A link to join the webinar will be sent via email ahead of the event.

For more information on this event contact [email protected]

This event is supported by the Shared History Fund, administered by the National Lottery Heritage Fund on behalf of the Northern Ireland Office.