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fionabrennanartisttours · 7 months

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A page in issue #9 of Gay Community News (1988) detailing Halloween events, with the main attraction of course being the Annual Halloween Ball hosted by the former staff of Flikkers Dance Club of the Hirschfeld Centre. The 6th iteration of the legendary ball would be held at the Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2.

If you're searching for costume inspiration this year, look to the photos from these incredible balls - my favourite image is of a man dressed as a gin and tonic, complete with bubbles and a lemon wedge!

Happy Halloween!

More info here: https://archive.gcn.ie/spotlight/sin-and-sleaze-at-halloween

Publication: Gay Community News

Date: October 1988

Issue Number 9

#queer history #queer dublin #lgbtq ireland #lgbtq history #dublin history #Gay Community News #halloween

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fionabrennanartist · 2 years

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Banner image of Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride website.

The theme of the 2022 festival is “Courage”, possibly in response to recent homophobic attacks and murders throughout the country

#Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride #LGBTQ+ history #dublin history #irish queers

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lionofchaeronea · 1 month

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Incipit of the Gospel of Luke (Quoniam quidem multi...), fol. 188r from the Book of Kells, created in an Irish or Scottish monastery ca. 800. Now in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

#art #art history #Book of Kells #Irish art #Celtic art #illuminated manuscript #Gospel of Luke #incipit #medieval art #9th century art #Trinity College Dublin

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die-rosastrasse · 10 months

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Some of the pretty places I saw in Ireland 📖

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ancientorigins · 23 days

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Trinity College library, Ireland

#library #trinity college #ireland #dublin #ancient origins #history #ancient #knowledge #ancient knowledge #europe #university

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nando161mando · 6 months

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Monday in Dublin. Be there!

With Workers.

Against Racism.

#DublinRiots #Dublin #Ireland #PeopleBeforeProfit #PBP #AntiRacism #Antifascism

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff

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mysunshinetemptress · 6 months

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💔🇮🇪

#awfc #woso #ireland #irish #irish history #dublin #home

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specialagentartemis · 2 months

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pro tip though: asking tour interpreters at a historical museum about ghosts is, 9 times out of 10, a fantastic way to get them to dislike you

#I was once on a tour of a Civil War house museum and we were seeing where the house was used as a makeshift field hospital and you can still #see bloodstains on the floor—grisly stuff #And another guest asked the guide if there were any ghosts #And she went OFF at him #Kinda unprofessional ngl but I got it #My dad and I kinda locked eyes remembering the time at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin #When my dad asked the guide about ghosts and the guide gave him a stern lecture about how #this place is about history and remembering the people who were held here and the political repression of Irish nationalists #Not sensationalist ghost tales #I have yet to meet a museum interpreter who likes this question #Museums

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werewolfetone · 2 months

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Favourite Irish history fact?

Now this is VERY difficult but right now it's probably the way that renowned early eighteenth century presbyterian philosopher samuel boyse, who ran in the same circles as the people who started the scottish enlightenment and whose religious thought strongly influenced modern ireland on both sides of the border through william drennan, would raise money when he couldn't pay his rent

#bonus story I first read this while trying to get home at four in the morning in the dublin airport in june of last year after spending #an entire transatlantic flight dead awake and I laughed so hard I choked a crisp and a stranger nearly had to perform the #heimlich manoeuvre on me. memories ♥️#ID in alt #asks #anon #irish history #jory.txt

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rabbitcruiser · 2 months

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Saint Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary bishop on April 5, 456.

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fionabrennanartisttours · 2 years

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Queer erasure in Irish History

At the end of the 1916 Easter Rising, the only participants left in the GPO Garrison were the rebel leaders, Elizabeth O’Farrell and her life-long partner, Julia Grenan. The leaders chose O’Farrell to go alone into the battlefield to deliver the surrender to the British HQ, with only a white flag as protection.

A photographer captured the iconic moment of Padraic Pearse and Elizabeth O’Farrell handing over the surrender to the British HQ and an English tabloid published the photo of the surrender. O’Farrell is absent from this published image despite being visible in the original photo. So the tabloid quite literally airbrushed Elizabeth O’Farrell out of history.

This is just one example of a queer person being erased from our history. As iconic as this image is today, the fact that O’Farrell was a lesbian, and Pearse was probably queer, is rarely mentioned. The queerness of these two Irish heroes was airbrushed out of history. But that’s why we have Queer History tours (and blogs) to help solve this problem! Now we can reflect on our story and paint these important figures back into our history.

#lgbtq history #dublin history #queer history #Elizabeth O’Farrell #Julia Grenan #Padraic Pearse #queer erasure #Easter Rising

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fionabrennanartist · 2 years

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“...from 1974 onward, students would talk and write about “the Gay Society”.”

Info from the Trinity College website on Q Soc, Ireland’s oldest LGBTQ student society.

#Q Soc #Trinity College #LGBTQ history #Dublin History #queer ireland #queer dublin #irish queer history #LGBTQ society

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stairnaheireann · 1 month

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#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

The proclamation would be read by Pádraig Pearse outside the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now called O’Connell Street) on Monday 24th April. The proclamation was printed secretly on an old and poorly maintained Wharfedale Stop Cylinder Press in the printing office that had been set up by James Connolly in the basement in the original Liberty Hall in Beresford Place, Dublin. All seven…

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 11 months

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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -- George Orwell, "NIneteen Eighty-Four"

Unethical, dishonest and sinister.

When multiple historians called out the 1619 Project's pervasive historical fraud, known compulsive liar, Nikole Hannah-Jones justified it as "reshaping public memory." That is, it isn't true, but it should be true, and people should believe and insist that it's true.

Dublin Pride has since added some text to their page to handwave the dishonesty. However, anyone using the site and its assets as a historical reference - and why wouldn't they, when it's the official site for Dublin Pride - will be reproducing the images they want them to have, not the ones that are factually accurate. So any news sites that source from their site will be, knowingly or not, perpetuating Dublin Pride's rewrite of their own history.

#Dublin Pride #pride march #gay rights #gay rights march #rewriting history #Orwellian #memory hole #gender ideology #queer theory #gay erasure #revisionist history #historical revisionism #fraud #woke homophobia #Malcolm Michaels Jr.#religion is a mental illness

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notbecauseofvictories · 9 months

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Am about to start 4 back-to-back meetings with a vicious head cold, half a cup of coffee, a sleep schedule all over the place, and the dregs of everything I took last night to get my incredibly stupid, disease-ridden body to calm down for five seconds.

Pray for me.

#I think there will be pictures tonight? I was just too incredibly tired to try last night.#and now alas I have all these emails.#it really was a fascinating vacation. I talked to so many interesting people! about sites and history;#about their program at university and their vertigo and how dublin isn't what it used to be.#I just. I love people. I love talking to them. I love watching them.#what a great idea we were.#celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge

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ancientorigins · 10 months

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Throughout history libraries have been our greatest repositories of knowledge. The Library of Trinity College Dublin holds all of Ireland’s history in one place.

#Dublin #Library #Ireland #Books #ancient #history #ancient origins

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