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Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland's LGBTQ Past

Páraic Kerrigan

4.18 AVERAGE

valkeakuulas's review

4.25

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

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Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland's lgbtq Passed is sort of an anthology of the stories people that were involved in queer liberation movement during the years of 1974-2024 in Ireland. It takes a look for instance on how marital equality develops, what was Catholic church's relationship and attitude to HIV/AIDS patients and priests that are gay, it takes a look at transgender equality in Irish society and it gives us a grass root look on how lesbian and gay men were treated during the 50 year timeline.

It is a long period and there are many subjects that Kerrigan deals within this book and thus it is quite light on some of the subject matter. On the other hand it is extremely welcoming to see individual journeys during these years;  battling not only for themselves but for others in the queer community. We need books like this. Kerrigan has made it an easy read in under 200 pages and it is also very accessible in the sense that you really feel for what people went through and still are going through. It also is a great book to learn from actual stories on how grassroots movements eventually will change legislation and make the world a better place to live in.

lanadeldaniel's review

3.5

emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

serrure's review

4.25

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

frankiebae's review

4.5

fast-paced

aoifereadsbooks69's review

3.75

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conor_orourke's review

4.0

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mulvana's review

4.25

emotional reflective medium-paced

rose_purdy's review

3.5

informative inspiring fast-paced

rian_b's review

5.0

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jdurkan91's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Reeling In The Queers / Páraic Kerrigan

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~ If your child approaches you and says, "I'm gay," I hope you realise that what they are asking is, "Will you still love me even though I'm gay?”… ~

This is exactly what was needed. While you hear of the major stories in the LGBTQ movement in Ireland, this was a great step in getting words from people who lived it, who knew it, who without this book may have just been glossed over.

While not perfect, Ireland has come a long way in recognising LGBTQ people and their culture.

Big shout out to Kerrigan, as a fellow UCD iSchool graduate also I know the amount of time and research that had to go into this to make it happen. Hopefully will be seeing more in the future.

Also, the last chapter in Miss Alternative Ireland brought back great memories of when I won Miss Alternative Maynooth in 2012. Her name is Peg, and someday she will return.