University of Galway History Seminar: Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy

University of Galway History Seminar:

Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy,  

followed by an interview with its director, Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive)

Abstract:  

I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy is the new film from the Cork LGBT Archive. The film uses extracts from oral history interviews and items from the Cork LGBT Archive, to explore the lives of some LGBT people in Cork in the 1970s and 1980s. It explores how the Cork LGBT community provided a sense of connection, belonging, mutual support and fun to LGBT people at a time of criminalisation, prejudice and discrimination. The participants talk about the community spaces, parties, pubs, clubs and political activism. “It was fun, Cork in the 1980s was so much fun.”

Registration

This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/70yHPLYBUA

The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).

This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.