Irland
Irland ist ein besonderes Beispiel daf�r, wie wenig geradlinig die lesbisch-schwule Emanzipation verl�uft, wie wichtig dabei aber dabei die Rolle der europ�ischen Idee und der europ�ischen Institutionen sind. Erst 1993 wurde Homosexualit�t entkriminalisiert ? und dies nur nach einem Urteil des Europ�ischen Gerichtshofs f�r Menschenrechte. Sowohl die katholisch gepr�gte irische Gesellschaft als auch der noch lange unter massivem Einfluss der Kirche stehende Staat str�ubten sich lange gegen die Gleichberechtigung von Schwulen und Lesben; wie sehr sich dies ge�ndert, ja umgekehrt hat, zeigt nicht zuletzt die �berw�ltigende Mehrheit, die 2015 in einem Volksentscheid f�r die �ffnung der Ehe f�r lesbische und schwule Paare. Diese wechselvollen Geschichte spiegelt die irische Literatur, von der es gerade im lesbisch-schwulen Bereich auch bei uns eine breite Wahrnehmung gibt.

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Nicola White: The Burning Boy

UK 2022, 325 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Whitehead

Dublin, 1986. The murder of an off-duty officer in Phoenix Park should have brought down the full power of the Dublin police force. But Kieran Lynch was found in a notorious gay cruising ground, so even as the press revels in the scandal, some of the Murder Squad are reluctant to investigate. Only Detectives Vincent Swan and Gina Considine are ... Weiterlesen

Brian Merriman: 10 HISstories

Stage Stories Through Decriminalisation Ireland 25th Anniversary. Ireland 2018, 138 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Eigenverlag

�10 HISstories� is a book of ten Irish gay-themed short story plays from the founder of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Playwright, Brian Merriman turns real life stories into contemporary short plays, inspired by people affected by the criminalisation finally erased from the Irish Statute books in 1993. Ireland of the 1980s wasn't a pleasant place to live for ... Weiterlesen

John Boyne: The Heart's Invisible Furies

UK 2017, 720 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

A gay man is finding his way in post-war Ireland. The story begins in 1945 when a baby is born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural community. The baby is adopted as Cyril Avery by a middle-class Dublin couple and befriends a more confident, glamorous boy, Julian Woodbead, who provides a dubious anchor through ... Weiterlesen

Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys

UK 2017, 643 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Scribner

Set in Dublin and its near surround the novel follows the year to Easter 1916, the time of Ireland's brave but fractured uprising against British rule. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, the dark rough diamond son of Mr ... Weiterlesen

Cheyenne Blue: Never-Tied Nora

D 2015, 131 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - Girl Meets Girl Series 1

Nora Kelly loves her carefree London life where there's always a new woman to seduce. Her big Irish family tease her about her footloose ways, but she knows she's in no danger of losing her heart. Her family has only one rule when it comes to dating: Nora can date any woman she wants - as long as she's not ... Weiterlesen

Adrian McKinty: The Cold Cold Ground

A Sean Duffy Thriller. UK 2012, 332 pp., brochure, € 11.95
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Serpent�s Tail

Northern Ireland, Spring 1981. A homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera and a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder. On the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things - and people - aren't always what they seem. An killer who enjoys listening opera, the classic languages and is killing homosexuals. Homosexuality was ... Weiterlesen

Colm T�ib�n: The Empty Family

UK/USA/CAN 2011, 215pp., brochure, € 16.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

T�ib�n returns to his native Irish shores for the bulk of these 9 pristine stories, all - save one - contemporary tales of lives haunted by loss, whether it's the legacy of a sexually abusive priest in an already complicated love triangle in �The Pearl Fishers�, the long-absent gay son who returns to Dublin from New York to attend to ... Weiterlesen

John Cornwell: Seminary Boy

USA 2008, 321 pp., brochure, € 12.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

The author's memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of a seminary. Born into a destitute family with a dominating Irish-Catholic mother and an absconding father during WW II in London, John Cornwell experienced a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When he was sent to a remote seminary for boys in the countryside at 13. While he lived under ... Weiterlesen

Pawel Pawlikowski (R): My Summer of Love

UK 2004, engl. OF, 83 min., € 29.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

Out on the moors lonely Mona meets Tamsin, a rich, well-educated girl who's her own age but seems older with her self-confidence. Tamsin lives alone in a large appartment with her actress mother away and her father having an affair with his secretary. While Mona has just got hold of a moped, without an engine, still brilliant. She lives with ... Weiterlesen

Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy

UK 1990, 372 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arrow

In 1939, Liverpool, 16 year-old Brendan Behan is arrested for carrying explosives in his suitcase. A fervent republican undergoing a mission for the IRA, with designs to blow up a shipyard, Behan is sentenced to three years Borstal detention as he is a minor, and cannot be given the death sentence. - In this autobiography, Behan writes about the experiences ... Weiterlesen

Various Artists: Breakfast on Pluto Soundtrack

CD mit 13 Tracks, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

�Breakfast on Pluto� geh�rt sicherlich zu den Filmen, deren Atmosph�re in hohem Ma�e von der jeweils verwendeten Filmmusik abh�ngt. �Breakfast on Pluto� spielt, als die Popmusik am Anfang ihrer Weltherrschaft stand, in Irland - also dem, was sich nur unschwer als hinterw�ldlerischste Provinz ausmachen l�sst - und in London - dem Epizentrum musikalischer Trends. Der Soundtrack f�ngt diesen Spannungsbogen recht ... Weiterlesen