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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 months

The courage she had to take an axe to the frozen sea of Irish social conformity.

Dr Mary McAuliffe

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Irish author Edna O’Brien has died aged 93

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

Today, early this afternoon, my younger brother Conor will make his final journey from Paris home to Donegal. I am very sorry if this is how you find out. We know that he was loved by many.

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Cahir O’Doherty

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1 year

Every gay kid in Ireland in the late 80’s instantly knew what she represented - what she embodied- was revolution. Your older brothers couldn’t see it but we could: she was the future moving through the present. She only had to open her mouth and mountains fell.

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Cahir O’Doherty

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4 months

Paul Mescal has Gen Z in a chokehold in Brooklyn. They men all look like they play GAA for Mayo now. It’s like the early days of Beatlemania here. People don’t understand the scale of the colonization.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

5 years

The Irish don’t know how to grieve in isolation. It goes against our traditions going back millennia. It feels like people are vanishing from the world unmarked and unmourned. When this is over there will be an Irish wake to end all others. Or I hope there will. It seems right.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

Being a gay teenager in the 1980’s in Ireland felt like living under an occupation. It could feel like a horror film. I remember reading the judge in the Declan Flynn homophobic murder case told his killers that they had performed a ‘community service.’

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Cahir O’Doherty

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1 year

There was only one place in my town growing up that felt safe to me. It wasn’t the school, it particularly wasn’t the church, or the parish hall or the local disco or sports clubs. All of those found their own ways to target and exclude. It was the library.

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@randomirish

1 month

Meanwhile, outside the Sinn Fein offices in Dublin. Gas craic, that sign. But it shouldn’t be necessary. Let people make their own choices about their own bodies. End of.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

5 months

Thinking of this place in Malin Head tonight. The only houses I’ve ever ached to own have been remote and hard by the sea - Irish lighthouses, keepers cottages, places like this that would blow the head off you. Heaven.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

I’ll let you into a secret. On the day of the marriage referendum in Ireland I was in Dublin on the assignment. But I didn’t allow myself - even for a minute - to assume the country would vote YES. Because I didn’t trust it would. That’s how traumatizing it was to grow up there.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

My teenage self would never have believed this. So proud of my home town - and thinking of the ones who will be carried in our hearts today. 🌈

Donegal News

@Donegal_News

2 years

Donegal’s first Pride parade took place in Buncrana this afternoon. Huge numbers turned out in the glorious sunshine 🌈 #pride #inishowenprideparade #PrideMonth #Donegal

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Cahir O’Doherty

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1 year

Puberty blockers, which some are ignorantly suggesting result in irreversible harm, are in fact commonly prescribed by doctors to kids who begin puberty at eight or nine years of age. Yes, this does in fact happen. Yes, the blockers prevent them from early onset with no harm.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

3 years

I’m in Ireland for about an hour and I’m already ⁦ @bewleyscafe ⁩ for a full Irish. The bread has stout in it. The butter is rich as Croesus. I’m so happy to be home. @TourismIreland @Failte_Ireland #StPatricksDay #loveireland

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

Why I hope "The Quiet Girl" wins an Oscar In "The Quiet Girl," Colm Bairéad has done something that I have rarely seen in Irish films - he saves us from pastiche, from becoming caricatures of ourselves.

Why I hope "The Quiet Girl" wins an Oscar

In "The Quiet Girl," Colm Bairéad has done something that I have rarely seen in Irish films - he saves us from pastiche, from becoming caricatures of ourselves.

www.irishcentral.com

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

In my teenage years the prospect of a colorful LGBT Pride parade passing through my northern Donegal town was about as likely as Finn Harps winning the World Cup, with Daniel O'Donnell as team captain and Enya as goalkeeper.

My home county of Donegal will have its first LGBT Pride parade this Sunday

My little town in Co Donegal is, at last, saying that all are welcome, even the LGBT sons, daughters, cousins, and neighbors.

www.irishcentral.com

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

It's a true saying, all that remains of us is love.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

I will hold a much delayed wake for him in the new year in Donegal. But I realize I have been holding one for him for over half my life. He was the kind of person that you lose many times over.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

Welcome to my timeline, terfs. You’ll notice that - unlike you - attacking trans people is not my entire interest or personality. I think it’s better to listen. I’ll keep supporting them over the digital online Crucible that exists to cauterize and deny them their own agency.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

Last year, outside The Boboli Gardens in Florence, an elderly Italian historian looked at my ID and my name and launched into a very considered discussion of The Nine Years War and the last stand of the Gaelic aristocracy just before the Plantation. He was delightful. I was agog.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

@PantiBliss Have they never been to a fecking pantomime? Or seen a Shakespeare play? Or watched Lily Savage or Dame Edna? In fact where were they with their big signs when the Mothers and Baby homes were being investigated for unrecorded mass burials?

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

5 months

It’s an op. No tinfoil hat required. Far right posting boards in the US have been discussing strategy on their sites for years: Tell the Irish that they’re being invaded by invading their social media. If you’re wondering why Ballybeg suddenly sounds like Alabama, now you know.

Sky News

@SkyNews

5 months

How international social media users are stoking Ireland's migration debate

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

This week I came to Paris to sign the papers and make the arrangements to bring him home. My progress was surprisingly swift after the long wait. He will be coming home faster than I anticipated. Tonight he will arrive in Donegal, for mass and burial in the family plot tomorrow.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

It's so sad to me that he drove so many good people out of his life. But I am often reminded that mental illness can hurt the victim as much - and often far more - than the people who are on the receiving end of it.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

Hello Donegal. I’m very glad to be back. ❤️

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

In a Dublin Aids Alliance t shirt on The Late, Late Show in 1990 challenging Ireland’s most famous patriarch. Most people could barely say the word gay then never mind advocate for their health and futures. You have no idea what she meant to us. That smile too. She was a giant.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

It does something to you, to be raised in a family and a community where a loss that singular is neither openly acknowledged or discussed.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

It does something to you - to have your worth publicly debated and determined - based of course on your social status, rather than your character. It does something to you to have your neighbors debate and then vote on your fitness to live and participate in your own nation.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

At the end of May I got a call from the Garda Liaison in Washington DC. They had found a body in Paris (where I'm writing this now). They were sorry to say they believed it was my younger brother.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

Then came the French bureaucracy. We would have to wait for months for them to retrieve his medical records and legally identify him. They refused to accept a DNA sample taken from me in New York. In fact we had to wait seven months before they legally certified the body was his.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

Losing our mother to cancer in our infancy, my brothers and I grew up with a child's dim awareness that we had lost something foundational.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

I think Conor spent a lot of his life in pursuit of the kind of embrace that he felt he'd been denied. But he didn't quite believe in his own worthiness, nor in the sincerity of what he received. It was so sad to see this exchange so often.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

How many literal Nazi rallies do you need to see before you understand what’s really driving these anti-trans, anti-drag, anti-LGBT campaigns?

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

2 years

OHIO: Nazis, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, others protested outside a drag show in Wadsworth. And a Nazi banner was hung thanking @GovBillLee for signing the bill in Nashville. White supremacy/Nazis are a real problem. Drag queens are not.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

If you ever heard him play you already know what a gifted musician he was; if you didn't it was because he may have feared your judgement. He wore all his fear beneath an outward bravado from a very young age.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

Watching people who don’t know trans people - or care to know them - watching them debate trans lives with hostile & dehumanizing language, as though they were microbes under a microscope - is heartbreaking when it it’s not repulsive to anyone who remembers life before #marref

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

The first was printed under his given name, Conor; the second under his transgender name Leuna; the third listed him as William – my father's name – the name he died under, having reestablished his male pronouns by deed poll in Ireland in 2017. That's a lot to take in, I realize.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

If you loved him you'll remember his laugh, his playfulness, his talent and more. He was so smart. He was so sensitive. I have spent this week being rattled by a deep sadness. He began so well, why did it have to come to this? Why? Why? Why?

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

@ClaireAllan If you want to be pollinated then maybe, but otherwise jaysus.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

We found we couldn't talk about it to each other and none of our adult guardians would address it; for reasons that were never explained, she was very rarely spoken of, nor was any trace of her former existence exhibited or confirmed.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

One night we all snuck into the Assembly of our old school and he played Prince’s ‘The Cross’ on his guitar. An invitation only concert. He could play it like he wrote it. We sang. This is how I hope I’ll remember him.

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Cahir O’Doherty

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10 months

He was so complicated - he could be so kind - he could also be difficult and in later years seriously dangerous. It has taken me most of my life to make any sense of his contradictory and sometimes cruel characteristics.

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2 years

‘That man who is forced each day to snatch… his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy it knows, if he survives his effort, and even if he does not survive it, something about himself and human life that no school on earth – and no church – can teach.’

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

There were many other complications. Conor was bipolar. Among other things that resulted in him having three legal passports.

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@randomirish

10 months

When the French police found his trans passport they spent two weeks searching for his sister, eventually concluding that his sister had been himself.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

They called me after that. For the last seven months I have been in weekly and usually daily contact with officers in the Department of Foreign Affairs. The process of legally identifying him was glacial and more than a little frustrating for us.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

4 months

@liamstack I live on the Lorimer stop, Liam. At the weekend it looks like an all-Ireland just let out from Croke Park. They even have the Conal chains. That show changed lives during the pandemic I think. It has absolutely changed fashion. We’re in the Mescal topless summer. It’s a thing.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

Last month - after assurances from me I would turn to the NYC LGBT caucus for help - the authorities finally found the records to identify him, ascertaining my relationship and allowing us to start to make plans to bring him home.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

There is so much to say. I know this isn't the right forum for it. Nowhere on the internet is. Please send me a message if you would like to get in touch.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

I still can’t get over @ABBAVoyage Seeing them emerge from the dance floor like it was 1979 was electrifying. If the show was in New York I’d go once a week the way some people go to mass. #abbavoyage #lgbttravel

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

It comes down to this for me: the offense given by trans people - and the mortal offense taken by cisgender people - are, on their face, appallingly, ostentatiously disproportionate. That’s how I know it’s just an old LGBT phobia in a new mask.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

‘He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable.’ James Baldwin saves lives. When I picked up ‘The Fire Next Time’ in the Bookworm in Derry it was like a god speaking from a cloud. But that bookshop is gone and the voices of human cruelty are even louder now.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

As I’ve remarked previously, this suggests a headstone more than any celebration. Like something you might leave flowers in front of, sighing heavily.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

The flawless job Irish LGBT activists are doing protesting todays British ASTROTERF invasion would do your heart good.

🏳️‍🌈 Izzy Kamikaze 🏳️‍⚧️🦕🦖

@IzzyKamikaze

1 year

It's an invasion, a British invasion. #TERFsOut

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

It was neither safe nor legal to be gay in Ireland in the period he’s discussing. It’s the measure of this idiots complacency that he speaks of it as a kind of Belle Époque. It was ruthless. People talk about their Leaving Cert nightmares. You’re lucky if that’s all you have.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

We had grown up in the thick imprisoning silence that had swallowed Ann Lovett and Declan Flynn and countless others - and she broke it. Jesus did she break it. That voice was like a god speaking from a cloud. Electrifying. Weirdly recognizable. As if it had always been there.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

Leaving Dublin Castle on the day the marriage referendum result was announced, it felt as if a portcullis had lifted allowing me to take my first tentative steps into my own nation. My body somehow felt different to me. It had relaxed in some new way I had never known about.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

Sending my love to the New York workers whose bosses will still open all the doors today as the cars float past on the street.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

4 years

Trump’s attack on the postal service is a national emergency. I’d like to hear reporters ask congressional leaders for their opinion on it. Daily. Nonstop.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

You may (clearly) experience some kind of existential body horror at the thought of changing your sex, but trans people more often experience relief and euphoria. It’s wrong to privilege your own unexamined unease over someone else’s explored and deeply personal need and choice.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

"Dream beneath the desert sky," sang U2 in The Joshua Tree - and I think the LGBT community of Palm Springs took their advice. #PSPSH #StayPalmSprings #StayAuthentic #AuthenticPalmSprings

Falling for The Joshua Tree, how a visit Palm Springs changed my life

"Dream beneath the desert sky," sang U2 in The Joshua Tree - and I think the LGBT community of Palm Springs took their advice.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

I misremembered about the Flynn trial, it was actually worse: “This,” Justice Gannon said at the trial, “could never be regarded as murder.” It does something to you, when you’re a teen, to read the authorities of the state talk like this about the value of an LGBT life.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

10 months

The Cross

Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner RecordsThe Cross · PrinceSign "O" the Times℗ 1987 Warner Records Inc. Paisley Park, distributed by Warner Records Inc., A...

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@randomirish

1 year

When people who have never thought about trans experiences read about puberty blockers they often think they have entered some Frankenstein experiment, not medicine. Róisin Murphy seems to equate them with irreversible sinister harm. But there are no known irreversible effects.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

I’m not there - and I haven’t been back for a Christmas since 1999 - but if I was in Buncrana, County Donegal tonight I’d visit @TheDriftInn0 to meet up with old friends and enjoy a perfect pint of Guinness. The open fire and the light in people’s eyes, I fondly recall. Sláinte!

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

In conversation (on a podcast) with the American owner of a very influential travel review company recently she told me: “I never had a good meal in Ireland.” I was agog. ‘Did you leave your hotel,’ I asked? ‘Did you ask any locals for a steer?’

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

8 months

People tell me I'm a romantic when I say that the ground can often become the sky (and vice versa) in Donegal. This goes counts toward proof @kathydjourno

kathydjourno

@kathydjourno

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Cloud reflections Donegal💙

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@randomirish

8 years

The Irish Stand at Riverside Church is 🔥 A capacity crowd celebrating Irish heritage and protesting anti immigrant bills #connectirish

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

This isn’t a ‘cross’ it’s a pre-Christian sun wheel marking the four seasons. It is associated with the mother goddess of Ireland, Bridgid (later repurposed as Saint Brigid). So, one behind the other. Likely the goddess was better craic, tho. #StBrigidsDay #StBrigidsCross

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@randomirish

1 year

Upholding the patriarchal gender binary (where girls say blee and boys say blaa) whilst claiming to protect women’s rights is cognitive dissonance. It’s been instructive to watch some white lady feminists fiercely protecting systems that also historically oppress them.

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@randomirish

1 year

Gaslighting revisionists like this gobshite would not have lasted a day under the the ostracism his co-religionists created for others.

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@randomirish

4 years

I just spoke on the phone to a man from Gaoth Dobhair. There is no equivalent to a sound like that in American life: the swift current, the matchless ability to veer between hilarity and heartbreak. Now I feel like I’ve been plugged into the mothership. Day’s made. #Donegal

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@randomirish

1 year

When I say it was like living under an occupation I mean that if you were gay your freedom to live there was openly debated, people felt they had the right to demand answers from you, they felt free to speculate about you, it was invasive and hostile and every day and insane.

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@randomirish

1 year

The level of abuse and hatefulness directed at trans people consistently gives the game away. They are dehumanized when they are not being dismissed. They challenge lazy binary thinking, they destabilize some norms, and rather than address all that they must be pilloried.

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@randomirish

1 year

After SNL Bob Dylan fans jeered her at MSG. Bob Dylan fans. She held the mirror up and some didn’t appreciate what they saw. To me she was often a sort of Cordelia. A coeur de lion. Like Shakespeare’s tragic heroine, her mere presence revealed people.

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@randomirish

1 year

I will say, if you’re cisgender, and not not truly an LGBTQ ally, could you have a word with yourself about how attacking trans people became your entire online output? Maybe you could - I dunno - do something else? Look out a window? Go for a walk? Stop hyperventilating maybe?

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@randomirish

1 year

We all need to have a good (and long postponed) chat about exactly how Irish society behaved toward LGBT people - their own sons, daughters, siblings and friends - before the law changes. Some of us have kept the receipts.

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@randomirish

1 year

First of all, it requires rare courage to pick up an LGBT book when you’re a teen, because even holding it is a life altering admission. But then some rightwing gobshite (who’s given it no thought) wants to pull it out of your hands? Just at the moment when you need it most? Nah.

Gay Community News

@GCNmag

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According to a source, some libraries have issued policies that limit young adult access to LGBTQ+ books. #GCNnews

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@randomirish

2 years

St. Pat’s for All Grand Marshals Cáit O’Riordan @rockyoriordan and poet Paul Muldoon.

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@randomirish

2 years

News reporters in Florida who are reporting the latest mass shootings are now being shot as they do so.

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

2 years

FLORIDA: “A man suspected of killing a woman Wednesday returned to the scene hours later and shot four other people, killing a 9-year-old girl and a television news journalist…” Heartbreaking. Every damn day. #HowManyMore #GunSickNation 🇺🇸

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In the taxi on the way from the Dublin airport I saw the first poster: ‘A child needs a mother and father’ it read. Such a bad faith ploy. Did someone think the #marref aim was to outlaw parents? And - by the way - did that happen? Did your Ma and Da combust? Did your society?

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@randomirish

1 year

@Starbucks Do you know how many LGBT people work for you? Do you know your iced coffee is a gay morning ritual? Do you know the offense you’ve just given to a CORE demographic? I will boycott Starbucks for the rest of my life if the Pride decorations aren’t reinstated, stat. Grow a pair.

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@randomirish

9 months

You may have taken this journey as many times in your imagination as you have in reality. You could probably find your way here with your eyes closed. The last miles on the road home for Christmas are always the best

The last miles home for Christmas are always the best

The last 10 miles of the road home at Christmas are always the best. That’s when the landmarks that exist in your history and your heart start coming into view. There’s the wide lough were you swam...

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@randomirish

7 years

#stablegenuis is trending all over the world.

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@randomirish

2 years

Take this ABBA Voyage to London immediately! After a forty-year hiatus, Abba are back, miraculously looking exactly like they did in their prime back in 1979. #abbavoyage #LONDON #abba

Take this ABBA Voyage to London immediately!

Nothing will prepare you for what's about to hit the stage at the new ABBA Voyage show in London, the mind-blowing “live” concert featuring the iconic Swedish pop group.

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@randomirish

1 year

Her loss is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to her.

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@randomirish

10 months

@martinbeanz Thanks Martin, things hit a roadblock when they discovered his trans identity. They slow walked the investigation after that. And it’s still not over, I have to go to the Paris Tribunal today. The best part is that I am sending him home.

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@randomirish

8 years

It's impossible not to mentally reference the Chris Christie / Curb Your Enthusiasm Vine today:

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@randomirish

1 year

Those anvil brained gobshites standing between young people and self knowledge will not succeed. They have no idea who’s they are up against. But I do. And I want to thank her.

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1 year

Like every young girl and gay person in the Ireland of that era, for the first eighteen years she wasn’t allowed to say who she was or what she wanted. But she made us listen. There hasn’t been a voice like her’s since her debut. That’s a measure of her artistry and importance.

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1 year

We live in such a stupid age. The phrase ‘dictatorship of transgenderism’ is just a meaningless scare quote. How can you defend families against trans people? Where does he think trans people come from if not families? I think his red cape is scarier, tbh.

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@tvcritics

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Good Jesus, they're on the streets.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

5 years

County Donegal: this is the story of the most beautiful place I have ever been. #LoveDonegal @fanadlighthouse @Donegal_Connect

Stay somewhere flashy: the Lighthouse at Fanad Head in Donegal

This is the story of the most beautiful place I have ever seen. It can be found at the top of a rocky headland in County Donegal, Ireland. It's called the Fanad Head Lighthouse.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

@neilcorcoran3 The difference is one of semantics, that is all. Both are preventing the onset of puberty and the potential distress of that, for differing reasons. Trans girls don’t won’t the male hormone onset that leads to a masculinization of the features, for example.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

4 years

My husband and I spent Christmas 2018 at the Fanad Head Lighthouse (you can book rooms). It was like living in a poem. On the first night biggest full moon I have ever seen rose up over the Atlantic and hung low in the water.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

6 years

Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldiers' Song) as performed by the The Tokyo Pipe Band gets the St. Patrick's Day Parade off to a patriotic start in Japan 2019. #ProudToBeIrish #Tokyo #東京 #StPatricksDay ッピー #セントパトリックスデー #L áFhéilePádraig #GlobalGreening

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

6 years

We are not getting into the DUP’s DeLorean time machine. We don’t want to live in a supremacist jurisdiction, cut off against our own will, where one party overrules all the others in perpetuity.

We are not going back to the British border in Ireland

We’re saying no to British border checkpoints in Ireland and we will always. The message has always been this simple.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

8 years

@RyanMcAleerUH @dmcbfs There's no direct rail or motorway to Donegal and the northwest. Star Wars found it before the Dail did.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

6 years

The Irish were greeted with a roar of welcome at Pride 2018. Here they are in the Village celebrating their #IrishPride at #NYCPrideParade #PrideNYC It was good music, good humor and good craic from start to finish.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

If you stay at the Hotel Eden in Rome they will often offer a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce to get you across town, so I took it to Chiesa di San Pietro in Montorio to visit O’Neill’s tomb, which is located in a place of high honor there near the altar.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

Anyway, days before the #MarRef (marriage referendum) I wrote this story. I felt like everything that had happened (and could) was moving in me. I could write a book about about it - in fact I just have, so let this capture a bit of what you can expect:

Why I need Ireland to vote Yes in the marriage equality referendum | IrishCentral.com

Breaking the murderous silence in Ireland for generations of kids.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

1 year

She’d already seen the ruthless way Ireland and the church treated the disfavored. A nun had forced her to sleep in a Magdalene ward, with the auld ones ‘crying out in the night for help that would never come.’ And she had seen all this before she recorded her first album.

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Cahir O’Doherty

@randomirish

2 years

I have taught myself to cook fairly elaborate French, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Ethiopian and more dishes. Thats how I know this woman was talking through her hoop. To me a bap with sausage, bacon and creamy Irish butter can easily hold its own with a cha siu bao. End rant.

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