Event overview
Join us to hear Dr Sean Brady's talk, part of the Goldsmiths Queer History Speaker Series
Northern Ireland’s history, and especially that of The Troubles of 1968-1998 has received considerable, though far from exhaustive scholarly attention in recent decades. Nonetheless, in much of the scholarship, the centrality of religion and religious differences are elided with emphasis placed on other factors such as economics and class in analyses of society, politics, conflict and sectarianism. Additionally, questions of gender and sexuality in Northern Ireland’s history barely exist among historians of the province. In this lecture, I survey some of the tensions and connections between religion, politics, gender formations and sexualities in Northern Ireland’s history, and some of the interdisciplinary problems in extant scholarship in these areas.
Dr Sean Brady is lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His research interest focuses on gender, sexuality, politics and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland. His published works include Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain 1861-1913 (2005) and What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World (ed. 2011) and The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe (ed. 2018). His current research project, Sex and Sectarianism: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in Northern Ireland’s History examines religion and sectarianism in relation to masculinities and sexualities in Northern Ireland after 1921.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 May 2018 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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