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Arthur Leahy delivering a talk on the Quay Co-op in Cork City Library in 2019

Cork lesbian activist Katherine O Donnell at an information stand for the UCC Gay Soc and Fan Club around 1992.

Katherine O Donnell holding the Golden Barbie - the coveted prize for the Pub Quiz of the annual Cork Women's Fun Weekend - in Loafers Bar 2000s

Cork lesbian activist, Katherine O Donnell, at the European Lesbian Conference in VIenna in 2018

Photograph of Derrick Gerety in Devon in 2018.
Derrick opened Loafers Bar in Cork in 1983 and ran it for 16 years. Loafers was one of the longest running gay bars in Ireland and provided an important space for the LGBT community in Cork.

David John Roche speaking at the launch of the annual Cork LGBT Awareness Week in Cork City Hall in 2016.
Dave Roche (Rosie) was involved with the Cork LGBT community from the late 1970s and was involved in AIDS activism in the 1980s. He was the…

Cork based Queer Artist Stephen Doyle at the opening of his student exhibition Beyond Dialogue at the CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in 2017.
Stephen Doyle explored the Relevancy of Queer Visual Culture in Western Society and Modern Russia.…

Cork based queer artist Stephen Doyle with his portrait Dylan is Ainm Dom (Dylan is My Name) as it was added to the Cork Crawford Art Gallery Collection in 2020.
Dylan is Ainm Dom (2018), explores contemporary concerns with self-identity in modern…

Joan McCarthy, lesbian feminist activist, speaking at a feminist rally outside the GPO (General Post Office) in Dublin in 1985. Joan, representing the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Collective, spoke about lesbian visibility at the rally which was protesting…

Joan McCarthy speaking the launch of the UCC LGBT Staff Network in February 2008 - the first LGBT university staff network in Ireland.
Joan McCarthy and Cathal Kerrigan were co-chair of the UCC LGBT Staff Network when it was established in 2008.