| Description | The archives contain over 200,000 press cuttings from 1976 onwards, a library of over 150 international titles, a complete set of every lesbian/gay title (periodicals and single titles, numbering 25 in total) published since 1975 on the island of Ireland. There is also a large collection of audio and video, photographs and slides, flyers, posters, badges and other ephemera.
The material is generally stored in box files. The contents of a number of such files were examined and listed.
Box marked Lesbian and gay youth/Irish/reports/papers/ documentation includes pamphlets on Childline; pamphlet on 'Speakout, International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation; various press releases; typescript interviews with parents of gay children; 'Shocking Pink', issue 9 [a juvenile magazine for young women]; a document entitled 'If your child is gay or lesbian', produced by Parents ' Support Group; report National Gay Federation discussion document 'A youth group for gay adolescents', September 1979; Report on the 2nd International Gay Youth Congress 7-12 July 1985.
Box marked Gay groups abroad/foreign press includes: fax relating to a piece in the Guardian 8 February 1994 entitled 'Shamrock Pink'; Irish Gays in London, newsletter, summer 1982; 'Amach Linn! Irish Lesbians and Gay Men in London', newsletter, September 1996.
Box marked Queer Organisations/promotional tours includes: circular letter on 'The Lesbian Avengers Civil Rights Organising Project' [New York]; various leaflets about the National Gay Federation; leaflets about the Cork Gay Collective and Manifesto; press release for 'Out for Ourselves: The Lives of Irish Lesbians and Gay Men'; annual reports for 'Cara-Friend 1989-1990, 1992-1993; typescript, the Irish Gay Rights Movement, Constitution, 1975; report on the National Gay Conference, 1981; 'Gays in the Eighties, Which Way Forward?; National Gay Conference, TCD, Dublin, report; report on 'The future of the Lesbian and gay Community', 1986; letter regarding LEN[Lesbian equality Network], 1993; flyer, 8 Irish Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Cork 1998; flyer on an All Ireland Lesbian and Gay Men Conference, 1983; flyer, National Gay Federation incorporating the Irish Gay Rights Movement, 1974-1978; 'Lesbian Women'; annual report Gay Switchboard and Lesbian Line, Limerick, 31 March 1994.
Box marked LOT [Lesbians Organise Together] includes: LOT annual reports 1993, 1994, 1995; 'In Focus' June/July 1998 National Women's Council of Ireland; pamphlet, 'Lesbian Education Aware 1996/1997 annual report.
Box marked Women's Campaigns/non-specific/queer includes: 'Making Europe Meaningful: The Treaty of Amsterdam Implications for Women', produced by the National Women's Council of Ireland; 'Wimmiz'Zine', newsletter March 1995; pamphlet/booklist Cork women's poetry Circle 1996, with inserts; European Women's Lobby newsletter, 1988; various posters elating to WERRC conferences; 'Women, waste and planet safety. Report on the seminar organised by banlucht and the Irish Women's Environmental Network, July 1992; pamphlet, International Day of Action for Women's Health, 28 May 1997; DAG [Divorce Action Group], 'A first brief on the dissolution of marriage presented by Divorce Action Group'.
Box marked Women's health/excluding AIDS includes: submission from LEA?NOW [in response to the government green paper' Supporting Voluntary Activity, The Community and Voluntary Sector and its Relationship with the State', 1998; 'Department of Health: Developing a Policy for Women's Health, A Discussion Document, 1995'; Equality Employment Agency annual report, 1994; IMPACT working for Equality, document pack; Discussion document on 'Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men', November 1993; Irish Family Planning Association, annual reports, 1986, 1991; leaflet; The Dublin Abortion Information Campaign; Press release Women's Aid, 1995, regarding the 'zero tolerance' campaign; Leaflet Irish Women's Abortion Support Group; Irish Family Planning Association Pregnancy Counselling Service: Profile Report: The First 100 Clients, October 1992-December 1992.
Box marked Women's Campaigns [non-specific, queer] includes: Women's Day posters from the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre; the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre annual report for 1995-1996; Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre newsletter, 1998 and list of events; Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, 'Feminism, Politics, Community', edited by Ailbhe Smyth; flyer, Irish Council for Civil Liberties conference on women's rights, Dublin 1997; 'Status Journal' produced by the Council for the Status of Women, 1992; various flyers and leaflets relating to women's events.
Box marked feminism includes: various newscuttings on general issues relating to women for 1998-1999.
There are 3 boxes which contain cuttings, leaflets, etc. on 'Film Festival Ireland'.
One box marked 'Pride Ireland'.
Box marked Original, MSS, Theses, Literature includes: pamphlet 'Irrepressible - gay liberation in Ireland' by John F Grundy, 1985; a number of posters; copy of a radio play [incomplete?] 'Trespass' by Emma Donoghue, typescript, 33 pages.
Box file containing magazines includes: 'Everywoman', 'Feminist Art News', 'Harpers and Queens', 'Body Politic', 'Bitch', 'MsChief', 'Irish Women's News', 'Modern Woman' [newspaper], 'Frontline: Journal of the TCD Labour Party', 'The Bar', 'Wasp', 'Journalist'. There are no full runs, just odd issues of these publications.
Box file containing issues of 'Lola Press', a magazine, 1995-1997.
Box file containing copies of the magazine 'MsChief', 1992-1997, with exceptions.
Box file containing issues of 'Out' 1984/1985-1988 (published in Dublin).
Box file containing issues of 'In Touch: Journal of the National Gay Federation', 1979-1981.
Box file containing issues of 'In Touch: The Newsletter of the Irish Gay Rights Movement', October 1977 (?)-January 1978, also contains the annual report of the Irish Gay Rights Movement, 1980.
Box file containing various newsletters dating from the 1970s to the 1990s includes Newsletter [Mullingar]; 'The Pink Pages' [Cork], 'Dublin Guyz' [Dublin], 'Sapphire' [Cork], 'Gaysock' [Cork]', 'Centrescene' [Dublin], 'Just Out' [Dublin], 'Outpost' [Galway], 'Irish gay News/Quare Times' [Dublin], 'Inside Out' [Cork].
Box file containing copies of the magazine 'Women's News' 1986-1999, with exceptions.
Box file containing issues of 'Identity: A Quarterly Review Issue', 1982-1983, with exceptions.
Box file containing issues of 'Innuendo' [Dublin], 1997-1998.
Box file containing issues of 'Mna Mna' [rural Lesbian Irish newsletter], 'Lotsa Lip', newsletter, 1996, 1997.
Box file containing issues of 'Harlot' [Dublin] 1995(?), 'Muffmonsters on Prozac'.. |
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