Research Catalog

Title

• A day in May : real lives, true stories / Charlie Bird ; edited by Kevin Rafter ; with a foreword by Colm Tóibín.

Author

Bird, Charlie

Publication

• Sallins, Co. Kildare : Merrion Press 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Rafter, Kevin
• Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

Description

xiv, 253 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"On May 23rd, 2015 the people of Ireland made history by becoming the first country in the world to introduce marriage equality by popular vote. The joyous scenes from Dublin Castle and across Ireland, as the historic vote was declared, made headlines across the globe. But more than anything else, the vote was about changing the 'real lives' of the largest minority in Ireland: the LGBT community. Charlie Bird, inspired by the extraordinary Yes Equality campaign, travelled the length and breadth of Ireland to record first-hand the moving life stories of over fifty people who were deeply affected by the marriage equality vote. These are the true stories from ordinary LGBT people who have lived in the shadow of inequality and oppression for decades. A Day in May is a poignant record of their lives - of the pain, terror, confusion and sometimes the laughter - all of these emotions are beautifully captured by Charlie Bird. Stunning portrait photography complement the voices on paper to powerful effect amplifying the life affirming impact of that day in May 2015 when Ireland said yes to marriage equality. *** "The ordinary men and women who tell their remarkably eloquent stories create a fascinating tapestry of voices and experiences that epitomizes the phrase 'the personal is political.' As Colm Toibin writes in his introduction, each gay testimony 'moves our lives from shadow into substance.' A Day in May is an uplifting, enlightening and powerful collection." -- Kevin Howell, Shelf Awareness, Social Science, July 1, 2016 [Subject: Marriage Equality, Politics, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies]"--From Amazon.com.

Subject

• Ireland
• Same-sex marriage
• Same-sex marriage > Ireland
• Sexual minorities
• Sexual minorities > Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

It's the same love that I have for my wife / Enda Morgan -- We're both going to wear dresses. No dickey bows for us / Rachel Morgan & Marion Doherty -- Three-quarters of myself was consistently hidden / June Hamill -- I lost my college peer group, to AIDS. I stopped counting after thirty / Bill Hughes -- They beat the living daylights out of me / Ben Slimm -- I was out of control and very destructive / Jenny Hannon -- What will the neighbors think / Arthur Leahy -- We are a very post-modern family / Kathryn O'Riordan -- We were in love, and it felt really good / Nuala Ward -- I prefer having two women as parents / Sharon Slater & Stephen Clancy -- Like there were no lesbians in Ireland / Rebecca Murphy -- So the gay thing was never mentioned / Ed O'Callaghan -- When I verbalised that I was gay, they sent me a priest / Des Crowley -- I tried not to allow it consume me. But it became more and more difficult / Philippa, Helen & Jenny Ryder --^ Everybody knows that Dominic and I were a married couple / John Paul Calnan -- I thought you were going to say you were pregnant. Oh, Christ, thank God / Garry Hynes -- You are my son, I love you, it's not a problem / Steven Sharpe -- My Dad said, "You are gay, are you?" / Gary Ridge -- I tore myself apart for the sake of the referendum / Sharon Nolan -- My action men used to live together in my sister's Sindy house / Eamon Farrell & Steven Mannion Farrell -- Do you know, I couldn't ask for a nicer partner in my life / Caroline Stewart -- So I put on my t-shirt and went knocking on doors / Will Keane -- I just lost my speech, to be honest with you / Kathleen Sharkey -- I had a lot of fiends. They were just predominantly female / Noel Sharkey -- That absolutely messed with me, messed with my head / Oein DeBhairduin -- Mike, do you have something to tell me? / Micheal O Riordain -- Will you be Gillian's wife or her husband? / Lora Bolger & Gillian McKenna --^ I knew at the time was that I couldn't stay married, that was just not an option / Anita Furlong -- I suppose you heard Leo Varakar's story? / Tommy Roddy -- I kept meeting lesbians and, you know, it was great / Breda Larkin -- People were just sobbing because it was just so beautiful / Brian Sheehan -- We both wore the same coloured dickey bow, just so people kind of made the association / Adam Hannon & Joan Dodd -- He says, your mother wears her gay son like a badge of honour / Colin O'Mahony -- It all started with flavours of yoghurt / Claire Goss & Anne Marie Lillis -- The priest did say he would say a prayer for me / Mark Govern -- It's going to be a great day today, isn't it? / Patrick Dempsey -- He sprung up from the chair, gave me a big hug and an embrace / Ursula Halligan -- If a girl showed interest in you now, what would you say? / Siona Cahill -- Sometimes if everyone's favourite colour was red, I always wanted to be a different colour / Sabina & Gavin Brennan --^ I hadn't a clue that he was gay. I really hadn't a clue / Luke Barber -- They are family now / Vivian Cummins, Erney Breytenbach & Brandon Martin.

ISBN

• 1785370766
• 9781785370762
• 9781785370779 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781785370793 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016387823

OCLC

950248992

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library