A dog who was abandoned at a shelter North Carola for humpg another male dog has been adopted and renamed after the famo gay Irish playwright and poet Osr Wil. Steve Nichols and John Wn have given Osr Wil a new lease on life.
Contents:
- “GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
- IRISH GAY WRERS
- DOG ABANDONED FOR BEG "GAY" RCUED AND RENAMED OSR WIL
“GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
In recent years, Irish society has unrgone sweepg transformatns, cludg legalisatn of same-sex marriage and crimalisatn of homosexualy. It may e as a surprise to learn that late medieval/early morn Ireland a cult of male homosexualy/bisexualy was apparently not only prevalent but wily tolerated among the upper echelons of Gaelic society, particularly the lerati, but cludg also native kgs and chieftas. Of implyg a homosexual relatnship wh his patron...
From a psychologil standpot seems unlikely that a heterosexual male, even of poetic ste, would have posssed eher the abily or clatn to adopt the role of homosexual lover, or been pable of stag . The likelihood is that those givg exprsn to homoerotic sentiment were naturally so cled. At the very least he mt have been plic – a monstratn, perhaps, of the power exercised by poets wh Gaelic Irish seems unlikely a heterosexual male, even of poetic ste, would have posssed eher the abily or clatn to adopt the role of homosexual lover, or been pable of stag Homoerotic sentiment apparently survived among the Gaelic Irish lerati until well to the 17th century.
We know, for stance, that the Kerry poet Piaras Feiréar (1600-1653) one of the greatt Irish language poets of his day, posed both homoerotic and heterosexual verse. " While, as already noted, bed-sharg was regard as a privilege enjoyed by distguished followers as well as poets of kgs and chieftas, the nial by mentators that had any homosexual nnotatns is not nvcg.
IRISH GAY WRERS
We do know that William Ruf, son of the Norman De William, nqueror of England 1066, was very probably homosexual. The 17th-century Sttish kg, Jam V1, who beme Jam 1 of England, was also, apparently, predomantly homosexual, though what mark (if any) his proclivi left on English or Sttish rerds is not known to . Elements of what may be homoerotic sentiment occurrg an early English translatn of this were apparently tected by the 19th-century English historian, Jam Anthony Frou and later, 1969, by the Oxford don and man of letters, AL Rowse, himself homosexual.
The elements qutn rive om the Irish of Ó Conaill's origal Ireland, homoerotic sentiment survived among the Gaelic lerati until well to the 17th centuryIn Ireland, as already monstrated, homoerotic sentiment survived among the Gaelic lerati until well to the 17th century. Thereafter Gaelic Irish reference to homosexualy (where occurs at all) be general pejorative. It has remaed so until close to the prent day, which has seen not only the troductn of social and legal reforms already referred to, but the electn of a youthful, openly homosexual taoiseach of sterlg urage and enlightened visn.
DOG ABANDONED FOR BEG "GAY" RCUED AND RENAMED OSR WIL
Among others who may be noted the same ntext is Jerry Buttimer, the first openly homosexual Fe Gael TD; the Cork hurler, Donal Óg Cack; and particular David Norrris – dntls battler for "gay" rights at a time when prejudice, often vic, still reigned supreme.
Although married to a woman, Osr Wil was a gay man and was famoly imprisoned for gross cency followg nsensual enunters wh men.
However, an expert group 2002 nclud that there was no doubt to their thenticy, thereby nfirmg Casement’s inty as a gay man.