London Irish LGBT Network
To help us to achieve our aims and ensure the organisation is effectively managed, we are searching for dynamic and inspiring new members to join our Board of Trustees. Your input will help determine the focus and direction of the organisation, enabling it to best serve the Irish LGBT community in London.
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Friday 20th July 2018
On a balmy Friday evening in Camden’s historic London Irish Centre, the London Irish LGBT Network gathered to hear Fulbright Scholar, Maurice J. Casey speak on the intersectional movements of radical politics in the Republic of Ireland which laid the bedrock for this decade’s two ground-breaking referendum results. The marriage equality referendum in 2015, and repeal referendum in 2018 have been heralded by many as the dawning of a new era of a pluralist, modern, secular Ireland, but Casey guided us through the underpinnings of this which were visible from the early eighties. Using the examples of four protest placards from what Maurice Casey called ‘Ireland’s first intersectional protest’, the Fairview Park Protest which occurred in response to the homophobic murder of Declan Flynn in late 1982, the participants were walked through elements of radical politics which were visible and began the decades-long struggle for both LGBT equality and bodily autonomy which came so prominently into the public eye with the 2015 and 2018 referendum campaigns.
Update // More tickets are now available.
Join us on July 20 in London Irish Centre for a talk entitled “Radical Politics, the 8th, and LGBT activism in RoI 1973-90”. The talk will be delivered by Maurice J Casey, from the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
This talk explores radical politics and the early Irish LGBT movement. Ireland’s recent referendums, Marriage Equality and the Repeal of the 8th amendment, have been seen as victories for progressive politics in Ireland.
It will discuss the intertwined history behind these two moments of major change by considering how the 1983 campaign against the 8th amendment influenced the campaign for LGBT rights in Ireland.
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