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• ↓ Dublin Life & Culture.
• ↓ Pubs and Gay Social Life in Dublin, 1923–1973 (2025 Book Chapter)
• ↓ Social/private club bars in Dublin (2025 map)
• ↓ Early Houses of Dublin (late 2023)
• ↓ The life and death of IRA Volunteer Christopher Bird (1916-1939)
• ↓ The life and death of republican Patrick Murray (1933-1950)
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"During lockdown, I researched and wrote a long article on the history of gay-friendly pubs and venues in Dublin over a fifty-year period – from the early Irish Free State in 1923 to the emergence of the first proto-gay rights group in 1973. I’m delighted that this work has now been published as a chapter in The Irish Pub: Invention and Re-Invention, the first book-length academic study of the Irish pub. Credit to editors Moonyoung and Perry for sticking with an ambitious project and getting it across the line."

"My chapter examines the history, importance and legacy of public houses where gay men socialised – primarily Davy Byrnes, the Dawson Lounge, the Bailey, Bartley Dunne’s and Rice’s – in the Grafton Street and St Stephen’s Green area of the south city centre. It also looks at some of the hotel bars, restaurants, late-night cafés, private clubs and basement shebeens that served as meeting points for a small social scene that was criminalised and underground. I’m thrilled that the chapter was given a generous layout, with 29 pages featuring 19 full-colour historical images and advertisements."

"It has its origins in a 2013 CHTM! blog article on Bartley Dunne’s and Rice’s which became one of the website’s most-read articles. It proved that there was a keen audience for this kind of social history."

"Why did I take an interest? First, the topic hadn’t been examined in detail before – a strong motivation in itself. Most histories of gay life in Dublin focus on political organising and activism from the early 1970s onwards. A hugely important era but I wanted to uncover the community’s social life before the first campaign groups, early discos, the Hirschfeld Centre (est. 1979), and The George pub (est. 1985). Second, I was drawn to the underground nature of the pre-liberation scene – the coded language, discreet signals, and a community socialising hidden in plain sight. Third, I felt strongly that this was an important part of the city’s wider social fabric, and that gay/LGBT+ history should not be treated as separate from Dublin’s history as a whole."

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Dublin Life & Culture.

Pubs and Gay Social Life in Dublin, 1923–1973 (2025 Book Chapter)

Social/private club bars in Dublin (2025 map)

Early Houses of Dublin (late 2023)

The life and death of IRA Volunteer Christopher Bird (1916-1939)

The life and death of republican Patrick Murray (1933-1950)