Delaney, Enda

Davis, Gayle

Fletcher, Abigail

Arbuthnott family

British Association of Irish Studies

Irish Economic and Social History Society

School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh

2023-12-05T10:42:28Z

2023-12-05T10:42:28Z

2023-12-05

This thesis examines the legal, social, and cultural regulation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland from the partition of Ireland in 1921, to the 1982 decriminalisation of male same-sex relations in the province. Using official records, activist archives and contemporary cultural sources, this study elucidates and critically evaluates the sustained exceptionalism of Northern Ireland’s sexuality laws relative to the rest of the United Kingdom and Ireland. What emerges is a picture of the ‘half in half out’ status of Northern Ireland’s position within the United Kingdom, alongside a strongly held and distinctive culture of moral superiority that has continued to frustrate the equality of Ulster’s sexual minorities long into the twenty-first century.

https://hdl.handle.net/1842/41261

http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/3997

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The University of Edinburgh

Northern Ireland’s sexuality laws

homosexuality

Northern Ireland

cultural attitudes

social attitudes

'From partition to decriminalisation': homosexuality in Northern Ireland, 1921-1982

Thesis or Dissertation

Doctoral

PhD Doctor of Philosophy