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  • 25-08-2013 11:21am
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    2013 marks 20 years of decriminalisation of same-sex recognition in Ireland. A 40 year anniversary was celebrated in the UK in 2007 with a film history on BBC. I was lucky to record archive material from that period - Joe Orton, Joe Meek, Brian Epstein, W.H. Auden, Liberace, K Williams, Hidden Lives, Sir John talking to Press, Naked Civil Servant, Children's Hour etc. Anyone have similar material to share to celebrate 20 years in Ireland?


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    I think Edmund Lynch has a documentary and a book coming out

    IQA hosts a lot of stuff in the National Library

    http://irishqueerarchive.com/collections/

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Thanks for the information mango salsa. Really interesting and important coverage for the academic - would prefer footage film/ interesting gay Ireland ordinary life.


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    Know this is the silly season for the media. Any RTé heads on here - and chance doing a gay retrospective season? (great opportunity for someone - Mooney? Are you listening?). Micheál Mac Liammóir springs to mind!


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    Edmund Lynch made "did anyone notice us"

    Karl Hayden has a great youtube channel - there is some really great stuff on it of tge early days of GLEN

    http://m.youtube.com/#/user/KarlHayden?&desktop_uri=%2Fuser%2FKarlHayden

    http://www.ifi.ie/film/lgbt-history-month-did-anybody-notice-us/

    I am sure they both have lots of footage

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    As far as I know there are a few things being recorded/researched at the moment- not sure if its specifically for the anniversary or for something else.


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    Thanks for the feedback mango salsa & baby and crumble. Do you know if the current research is RTé-based or an independent study?


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