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10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS
It is part of a seri of ton Irish gay rights. 1: The trial of Osr Wil, 1895In the aftermath of his trials for “gross cency” at the Old Bailey 1895, when he was nvicted and sentenced to two years of hard labour, Wil was bankpted, his plays removed om the Wt End stage and his name erased om all public discsn except as a name for “unspeakabl of the Osr Wil sort” – or gay men, as we would now ll them.
The clud the Dubl Castle sndal of 1884, when a number of men workg the Castle admistratn were tried for havg homosexual relatns. 2: The crown jewels theft, 1907A siar high-profile legal se me wh the furore around the 1907 theft of the Irish crown jewels, when opportunistic natnalist anger agast crown admistrators was exprsed vilently homophobic newspaper outpourgs.
When any reprentatn of the homoerotic ma to the public arena, was met wh vehement opposn. 4: The Wolfenn report, 1957The slow procs of change began when the Wolfenn report on homosexual offenc and prostutn was published, England, 1957. As Ireland experienced radil enomic, legal and social change durg the last half of the 20th century and to the 21st, there began a rensiratn of the public role of Irish lbian and gay liv.