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Cork Lifelong Learning 2019
Cork鈥檚 Lifelong Learning Festival is an annual event which takes place in Cork City (& county) each year in springtime. The festival promotes and celebrates learning of all kinds, across all ages, interests and abilities. The festival鈥檚 motto is 'Investigate, Participate, Celebrate', and the public can do that by taking part in workshops or classes, watching demonstrations, trying out new skills, and seeing others; from the young to the old, show off what they are learning.
Members of the UCC LGBT+ Staff Network will be delivering talks as part of UCC's contribution to the festival.
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: male convict sexuality in the 19th century
- Title of the talk: 鈥淭he Love That Dare Not SpSpeakereak Its Name: male convict sexuality in the 19th 肠别苍迟耻谤测鈥�
- Speaker: Dr Barra 脫 Donnabh谩in, Lecturer in UCC鈥檚 Department of Archaeology and Co-Chair of the UCC LGBT+ Staff Network
- Date, time and venue: Monday 8 April, 5pm-6pm, West Wing 8, UCC Main Campus
- Practical details: No booking required; the capacity is 20 people and the room is wheelchair accessible
Barra will deliver an illustrated talk on male convict sexuality in the 19th century, specifically in relation to findings from archaeological excavations he has led, since 2012, at the Spike Island site. Barra is co-author of Too Beautiful for Thieves and Pickpockets: A History of the Victorian Convict Prison on Spike Island (published by Cork County Library, 2016).
Discovering LGBT Irish History: 1970s to 2019
- Title of the talk: 鈥淒iscovering LGBT Irish History: 1970s to 2019鈥�
- Speaker: Dr Diarmuid Scully, Lecturer in UCC鈥檚 School of History and Events Officer of the UCC LGBT+ Staff Network
- Date, time and venue: Tuesday 9 April, 5pm-6pm, O鈥橰ahilly Building, room 255, UCC Main Campus
- Practical details: No booking required; the capacity is 30 people and the room is wheelchair accessible
Diarmuid will give an illustrated talk about the history of LGBT + people in Ireland from the 1970s to 2019, focussing on key issues and events. How can we find out about LGBT+ Irish history? What can we learn about changing attitudes to LGBT+ people ? About their own experiences? And why is it important to find out about this history? Diarmuid teaches a Case Study on modern and contemporary LGBT Irish Identities in the School of History.