Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History

by Brian Lacey (Wordwell Books) is being launched at 6pm on Thursday 25 September 2008 in the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin by Ruairi Quinn TD.

Launch invitation and chapter contents details attached.

Chapter overview

1. Introduction: Posing as Somdomites’

2. Sagas, saintSeand sinners

3. PoetSeand princes in Gaelic Ireland

4. English’ kingSeand laws

5. The earl of Castlehaven’s sodomy

6. The law of the land

7. Prince William and his page

8. It could happen to a bishop’! Again?

9. EmigrantSeand deportees

10. PriestSeand higher education

11. The Dublin Castle scandal

12. The Labouch?©re amendment and the trials of Oscar Wilde

13. Some Victorian and Edwardian writers

14. Three heraldic bachelors’ and the Irish crown jewels

15. Irishwomen who loved women

16. The Celtic renaissance

17. Something sensational to read’: Roger Casement and his diaries

18. Irishmen and Irishwomen’ in Republicanism

19. Sodom and Begorrah: gay life in a Free State’

20. Gay liberation and victory in the north (1982) and south (1993)

Bibliography and additional reading