“There is a peculiar intensity about some streets in Dublin that gets more layered the longer you live in the city and the more stray memories and associations you build up.” Colm Tóibín, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
James Murray guides a journey through Dublin’s streets to explore the city’s storied queer past. Moving from the late nineteenth-century to the present day, hear about those writers whose lives and works were marked by Dublin, and who in turn left their own enduring mark on the city. The tour includes tales of resilience and celebration, from a sex worker-turned-novelist whose path may have crossed with Wilde’s, through the censorship of Kate O’Brien’s novels, to the flourishing careers of contemporary trans and genderqueer writers - and much more.
James Murray read English at Trinity and the University of Oxford. He works as a research assistant and freelance editor. He is interested in poetry, early-twentieth-century literature, and Irish culture.
Meeting Point: Hippocampus statue, opposite ILFD Box Office in Merrion Square Park Please be at the meeting point 10 minutes before your tour start time Ending Point: College Green, just beside the Henry Grattan statue.