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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.

Donna Alexander wearing a REPEALED t-shirt marking the repeal of the eight amendment (which had prohibited abortion in Ireland). Donna co-organised the first Irish Art+Feminism Wikipedia editathon in UCC In 2018. These events seek to improve…

Loafers Bar on Douglas Street was opened in 1983 by Derrick Gerety and operated until 2015, making it one of the longest running gay bars in Ireland. This picture shows Derrick working behind the bar in Loafers in the 1980s.
Loafers became an…

Cork lesbian activist Orla Egan pictured at Dublin Pride march 1990s walking up Dame Street.

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

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.

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…

Will Kennedy in Irish army uniform in the Lebanon in 1992. Will joined the Irish army in 1988 and worked as an army chef until he left in 2012.