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LGBTQ Online Book Club: Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy

About Borstal Boy From Wikipedia: Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners. From a technical standpoint, the novel is chiefly notable for the art with […]

LGBTQIA+ Heritage Symposium 2024

Canada Room, 1st Floor, Lanyon Building, Queen's Univ Belfast

AGENDA Date: Saturday 12th October 2024 Venue: Canada Room, 1st Floor, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast Time: 10am - 1pm Opening Remarks Adam Murray - Lead Organiser Dr. Matt Leebody - Chair of Cara-Friend Dr. Tom Hulme - Reader, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy & Politics at Queen’s University Panel 1 - Where Is Our […]

Queer Narratives: Lived Experience, Activism & Change in Northern Ireland

Linen Hall Library, Belfast 17 Donegall Square North, Belfast

PERFORMANCE AREA | £6.50 / £5.00 (MEMBERS) QUEER NARRATIVES: LIVED EXPERIENCE, ACTIVISM & CHANGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND - To mark Belfast Pride, we have invited artists and activists from the LGBTQ+ community to explore The Linen Hall’s LGBTQ+ archives. Hilary McCollum, Amanda Verlaque, Heather Fleming, and Mícheál McCann will choose an item from the archive […]