This is a select bibliography that includes the texts used in the research for the LGBTQIA+ Tour at Collins Barracks, as well as some additional texts on LGBTQIA+ histories and communities in Ireland. It is not a comprehensive list of all the texts related to LGBTQIA+ studies in Ireland but will continue to grow over time. Please note that some articles on the list are behind paywalls.
Stop 1: Clarke Square
Fleming, D. (2005) ‘Public Attitudes to Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Irish Economic and Social History, 32(1), pp. 1-18. (paywall)
Foucault, M. (1979) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage.
Foucault, M. (1980) The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Knowledge. New York: Vintage.
Giffney, N. (2009) ‘Introduction: The Q Word’, In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory, Giffney, N., and O'Rourke, M., eds., London, UK: Routledge, pp. 1-16.
Luddy, M. (1997) ‘“Abandoned Women and Bad Characters”, Prostitution in nineteenth-century Ireland’, Women's History Review, 6(4), pp. 485-504.
Luddy, M. (2007) Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Stop 2: William III Gauntlets
Brittan, O. (2017) ‘The print depiction of King William III’s masculinity’, The Seventeenth Century, 33(2), pp. 219–239. (paywall)
Griffiths, D.A. (2018) ‘Diagnosing sex: Intersex surgery and “sex change” in Britain 1930–1955’, Sexualities, 21(3), pp. 476-495.
Lacey, B. (2008) Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History. Dublin, Ireland: Wordwell.
Dillon, M./Jivaka, L. (2016) Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions. New York: Fordham University Press.
Kitchin, R. and Lysaght, K. (2004) ‘Sexual citizenship in Belfast, Northern Ireland’, Gender, Place & Culture, 11(1), pp. 83-103.(paywall)
Rubini, D. (1989) ‘Sexuality and Augustan England: Sodomy, Politics, Elite circles and Society’, Journal of Homosexuality, 16(1-2), pp. 349-381.(paywall)
White, L. and Evers, L. (2023) ‘Dillon, Michael’, Dictionary of Irish Biography. Available at: https://www.dib.ie/biography/dillon-michael-a2610.
Stop 3: Illustrations of Cú Chulainn and Camogie Uniform
Conrad, K. (2001) ‘Queer Treasons: Homosexuality and Irish National Identity’, Cultural Studies, 15(1), pp. 124-137. (paywall)
Dukes-Knight, J. (2013) ‘The Wooden Sword: Age and Masculinity in Táin Bó Cúailnge’, In: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Faculty of Arts and Science, Harvard University, pp. 107-122.
McDevitt, P. F. (1997) ‘Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, masculinity and Gaelic team sports, 1884–1916’, Gender & History, 9(2), pp. 262-284. (paywall)
Meaney, G. (1991). Sex and Nation Women in Irish Culture and Politics. Cork, Ireland: Attic Press.
Meaney, G. (2010) Gender, Ireland, and Cultural Change: Race, Sex, and Nation. London, UK: Routledge.
Miller, J. P. (2014) ‘The Feminization of the Irish Hero?’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 67(Summer 2014), pp. 1–31. (paywall)
Longman, F. (2023) ‘“What manner of man is this Hound?”: Gender, Humanity and the Transgressive Figure of Cú Chulainn’, Association of Celtic Students, Vol 8 & 9, pp. 1-24.
Stop 4: Non- Conformist Chair
Ahmed, S. (2006) Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Bonnevier, K. (2007) Behind Straight Curtains: Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture. Sweden: Axl Books.
Minch, R. (2009) ‘Gray, Eileen’, Dictionary of Irish Biography. Available at: https://www.dib.ie/biography/gray-eileen-a3593.
Rault, J. (2011) Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying in. London: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Souhami, D. (2020) No Modernism without Lesbians. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Stop 5: Stokes Tapestry and Mercury Needle
Earls, A. (Forthcoming) Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Sex between Men in Dublin 1922-1972. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Houston, L. M. (2023) Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Kerrigan, P. (2021) LGBTQ Visibility, Media, and Sexuality in Ireland. London, UK: Routledge.
Luddy, M. (2007) Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Luddy, M. (no date) Women and the Contagious Diseases Acts 1864-1886, History Ireland. Available at: https://historyireland.com/women-and-the-contagious-diseases-acts-1864-1886-11/.
McBrinn, J. (2021) Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Strong, T. (2021) ‘The End of Intimacy’, Cultural Anthropology, 36(3), pp. 381–390.
Vaughan, E. (2023) ‘HIV and the Politics of Silence in Ireland’, In: Sex and Sexualities in Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Gornicka, B., and Doyle, M., eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 317-333.
Vaughan, E. and Power, M. (2023) ‘The Discursive Construction of HIV Stigma in Irish Print Media’, Health, 27(3), pp. 398-416.
Wilson, C. A. (2009) Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stop 6: 1916 Rising
Bryan, D. (2009) ‘ffrench-Mullen, Madeleine’, Dictionary of Irish Biography. Available at: https://www.dib.ie/biography/mullen-madeleine-ffrench-a6039.
Dudgeon, J. (2016) Roger Casement: The Black Diaries : With a Study of His Background, Sexuality and Irish Political Life. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Belfast Press.
Lacey, B. (2008) Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History. Dublin, Ireland: Wordwell.
Lewis, B. (2005) ‘The Queer Life and Afterlife of Roger Casement’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 14(4), pp. 363-382. (paywall)
McAuliffe, M. (2016) ‘From Inghinidhe na hÉireann to the Irish Citizen Army: Women, Radical Politics & the 1916 Rising’, Saothar, 41, pp. 69-76. (paywall)
McAuliffe, M. and Gillis, L., eds. (2016) 77 Women of Richmond Barracks: We Were There, Easter 1916. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
McAuliffe, M., and Wheelock, H. (2023) The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed Through Personal Writing. Dublin: UCD Press.
Ó hÓgartaigh, M. (2013) ‘Lynn, Kathleen’, Dictionary of Irish Biography. Available at: https://www.dib.ie/biography/lynn-kathleen-a4964.
Quinn, J., and Clarke, F. (2013) ‘O’Farrell, Elizabeth’, Dictionary of Irish Biography. Available at: https://www.dib.ie/biography/ofarrell-elizabeth-a6740.
Tiernan, S., Redmond, J., McAvoy, S. and McAuliffe, M. eds. (2015) Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
Tiernan, S. (2016) Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Stop 7: Wedding Dresses of Katherine Zappone and Ann-Louise Gilligan and Trans Solidarity Badges
Browne, K. (2011) ‘“By partner we mean…”: Alternative geographies of ‘gay marriage’”, Sexualities, 14(1), pp. 100-122. (paywall)
Browne, K., Nash, C. J., and Gorman‐Murray, A. (2018) ‘Geographies of heteroactivism: Resisting sexual rights in the reconstitution of Irish nationhood’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(4), pp. 526-539. (paywall)
Fagan, P. (2011). Missing Pieces: A comparison of the rights and responsibilities gained from civil partnership compared to the rights and responsibilities gained through civil marriage in Ireland. Dublin: Marriage Equality.
Healy, G., ed. (2017) Crossing the Threshold: The Story of the Marriage Equality Movement. Dublin, Ireland: Merrion Press.
Healy, G., Sheehan, B. and Whelan, N. eds. (2015) Ireland says Yes: The Inside Story of How the Vote for Marriage Equality Was Won. Dublin: Merrion Press.
Mullally, U. (2014) In the Name of Love: The Movement for Marriage Equality in Ireland–An Oral History. Dublin: The History Press.
Neary, A. (2016) ‘Civil Partnership and Marriage: LGBT-Q Political Pragmatism and the Normalization Imperative’, Sexualities, 19(1), pp. 757–779. (paywall)
Reid-Buckley, E. (2023) ‘“To be honest, I’ve never associated too much with being Irish…”: Bisexualities and Belonging in the Post-Marriage Equality Era’, In Sex and Sexualities in Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Gornicka, B., and Doyle, M., eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 235-255.
Tobin, B. (2016) ‘Marriage equality in Ireland: The politico-legal context’, International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family, 30(2), pp. 115-130. (paywall)
Other Texts on LGBTQIA+ Communities/Histories in Ireland
Boyd, C. (1986) Out for Ourselves: The Lives of Irish Lesbians and Gay Men. Dublin: Women’s Community Press.
Casey, M. J. (2018) ‘Radical politics and gay activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1974–1990’, Irish Studies Review, 26(2), pp. 217-236. (paywall)
Connolly, L., and O'Toole, T. (2005) Documenting Irish Feminisms. Galway, Ireland: Woodfield Press.
Cronin, M. G. (2022) Sexual/Liberation. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press.
Ferriter, D. (2009). Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland. London, UK: Profile Books.
Hug, C. (1999) The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Inglis, T. (1987) Moral Monopoly: The Catholic Church in Modern Irish Society. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Inglis, T. (1998) Lessons in Irish Sexuality. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.
Inglis, T. (2005) ‘Origins and Legacies of Irish Prudery: Sexuality and Social Control in Modern Ireland’, Éire-Ireland, 40(2), pp. 9-37. (paywall)
Kerrigan, P. (2024) Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland's LGBTQ Past. Dublin: New Island Books.
Luibhéid, E. (2006) ‘Sexual regimes and migration controls: Reproducing the Irish nation-state in transnational contexts’, Feminist Review, 83(1), pp. 60-78. (paywall)
Luibhéid, E. (2018) ‘Heteronormativity: a bridge between Queer Migration and critical trafficking studies’, Women's Studies in Communication, 41(4), pp. 305-309. (paywall)
Madden, E. (2013) ‘Queering Ireland, in the Archives’, Irish University Review, 43(1), pp. 184-221. (paywall)
McDonagh, P. (2017) ‘‘Homosexuals Are Revolting’–Gay & Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland 1970s–1990s’, Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies, 7(7), pp. 65-91. (paywall)
McDonagh, P. (2021) Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Mulhall, A. (2011) ‘Queer in Ireland: ‘Deviant’ affiliation and the (un)holy family’, Downing, L. and Gillett, R., eds., Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies, London, UK: Routledge, pp. 99-112.
O'Brien, C. (2013) ‘Performing POZ: Irish Theatre, HIV Stigma, and ‘Post-AIDS’ Identities’, Irish University Review, 43(1), pp. 74-85. (paywall)
Quilty, A. (2019) ‘“Take Me to Church”: Sexual Citizenship and Spatial Justice in Ireland’, In: Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland, Fischer, C., and Mahon, Á., eds., London, UK: Routledge, pp. 51-69. (paywall)
Rose, K. (1994) Diverse Communities: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Politics in Ireland. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press.
Valente, J. (2010) ‘Self-Queering Ireland?’, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 36(1), pp. 25–43. (paywall)