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‘Homosexuals Are Revolting’ – Gay & Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland 1970s – 1990s
The current historiography on the early gay and lesbian liberation movement in Ireland 1970s-1990s has resulted in a narrative which has focused solely on the battle to decriminalise sexual activity between males. In turn, this has presented a picture of a movement comprised of one individual, David Norris, and one goal, decriminalisation. This narrative is predominantly an urban one, which excludes the activities of provincial activists, and most notably lesbian women. In this paper, I move away from viewing David Norris’ legal battle as the only form of resistance to Ireland’s sexual mores. Instead, I explore the other, often forgotten, forms of resistance carried out by Ireland’s gay and lesbian citizens; such as their attempts to create public spaces for gay and lesbian individuals; the appearance of homosexuals in the media to try dispel the negative stereotypes of homosexuality, and finally, their organisation of public demonstrations to declare pride in their identity and demand their place in Irish society. By doing so, these actions facilitated a public dialogue around homosexuality, which ultimately helped change the negative assumptions surrounding homosexuality and renegotiated Ireland’s sexual mores.
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Intellectual disability : a conceptual history, 1200-1900
\"This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. The collection is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally\"-- Provided by publisher.
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‘Homosexuality is not a problem – it doesn’t do you any harm and can be lots of fun
Using primary archival material, this article explores the role of students and universities in the campaign for gay rights in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. At a time when few organisations in Ireland involved themselves in the campaign for gay rights, student bodies facilitated the promotion of gay rights, interaction between gay rights organisations and students and challenged the legal and societal attitudes towards homosexuality in Ireland. In doing so, universities, both north and south of the border, became important spaces of gay rights activism, both in terms of the activities taking place there, but also symbolically, as gay and lesbian students challenged their right to claim a space within their respective universities, something denied to them in the past. Moreover, through the use of the student press, conferences and campaigns to gain official recognition for gay societies, students helped to promote a broader discussion on gay rights in Ireland. This case study analysis of gay rights activism on Irish universities offers an insight into the importance of exploring the efforts of students beyond the long 1960s, arguing that students continued to be important agents in challenging the status quo in Ireland and transforming Irish social norms.
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Abortion, Gay Rights, and the National Gay Federation in Ireland, 1982–1983
In the period between 2015 and 2018, the Republic of Ireland held two seminal referendums: the 2015 same-sex marriage referendum and the 2018 referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment, which had placed a constitutional ban on abortion in 1983. Both referendums, which passed by large majorities, signaled the dramatic transformation that had taken place in the Republic of Ireland in the preceding years, allowing the country to leave behind the image of a socially conservative society dominated by the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The 2015 same-sex marriage referendum was all the more remarkable considering that it was only in 1993 that the Republic of Ireland decriminalized sexual activity between males—the last country in the European Economic Community to do so. Speaking after the 2015 referendum, Enda Kenny, then Ireland's taoiseach (prime minister), declared that \"today Ireland made history. . . . [W]ith today's Yes vote we have disclosed who we are—a generous, compassionate, bold and joyful people.\" In a similar vein following the 2018 referendum, Leo Varadkar, Ireland's first openly gay taoiseach, emphasized the historic nature of the vote, noting that \"a quiet revolution has taken place and a great act of democracy a hundred years since women got the right to vote. Today, we as a people have spoken. And we say that we trust women, and we respect women and their decisions.\" Thirty-five years earlier, however, in 1983, the situation was profoundly different.
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The Mute's Voice: The Dramatic Transformations of the Mute and Deaf-Mute in Early-Nineteenth-Century France
Bouilly's UAbbé de i'Épée offers a unique site of tension between modes of representing the mute, thanks to its ostensibly realistic portrayal of a thinly veiled historical deaf-mute individual, the Comte de Solar, and his teacher and patron, the Abbé de l'Épée.1 The narratives around the mute \"wild boy\" captured in Aveyron and brought to Paris early in 1800 express the immediate impact of literary and theatrical discourses in shaping a popular understanding of the kind of difference embodied by the feral child, who was to become the subject of an extended and influential philosophical and educational experiment conducted by Jean Itard. \"6 As Quayson argues, disability imagery performs its symbolic or metaphoric functions not only within the literary domain but is transported to the social realm, where it shapes the way in which people understand or interpret disabilities and the disabled individual. [...]the question of how one determines a truthful account of disability and its origins is central to historical and literary narratives of the Comte de Solar and the wild boy of Aveyron.
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Autism in an Age of Empathy
“Empathy is among the most important of human characteristics,” writes Simon Baron-Cohen. “It enables not just social relationships and communication, but is a major basis for our moral code and for the inhibition of aggression. And whilst empathy may have some simpler equivalents in non-human species, its remarkable flowering in the human case is unique” (2006, 536). Baron-Cohen is not alone in his belief in empathy’s fundamental importance to human identity. “Empathy,” says philosopher Lou Agosta, “puts the human in human being,” whereas “the loss of empathy is equivalent to the loss of the individual’s being human” (2010, xiii–xiv).
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