Queer History Tour of Kilmainham Gaol

Brian Crowley, Curator of Collections at Kilmainham Gaol Museum, gives a virtual queer history tour of one of Ireland’s most iconic buildings. The tour explores the lives of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender prisoners associated with the building.  LGBTQ+ people have played leading roles in struggle for Irish independence and many of them found themselves prisoners in Kilmainham as a result of their political and revolutionary activities. The Gaol was also used as a place of punishment for those convicted of homosexual crimes in the 19th and early 20th century, including the men involved in the Dublin Castle Scandal of 1884, the biggest gay scandal in Ireland in the 19th century.