A photograph of LGBTQ+ activists Kiera Barbara O’Sullivan, Carol O'Keeffe, Orla Egan, and Nico Coveney, a Cork LGBT Archive volunteer, at the Brianna Ghey Vigil in Cork City on the 19th of February 2023. Brianna Ghey was a 16 year old trans girl who…
A photograph of LGBTQ+ activist and Cork LGBT Archive founder Orla Egan, Nico Coveney and JL Egan Morley, a Cork LGBT Archive volunteer, at the Brianna Ghey Vigil in Cork City on the 19th of Februaury 2023. Brianna Ghey was a 16 year old trans girl…
Evening Echo newspaper, dated 27 December, 2016, and titled "Project will preserve". Ellie O'Byrne interviews Orla Egan, an LGBTQ+ activist, founder of the Cork LGBT Archive and author. Orla speaks about the launch of her new book, Queer Republic of…
An opinion piece from the Evening Echo newspaper, dated July 28, 2017, titled "Yes-- we do still need Cork Pride in 2017!", and written by Orla Egan, an LGBT activist and founder of the Cork LGBT Archive. The article outlines why Cork Pride is still…
An Irish Examiner newspaper article covering the Cork Gay Pride Parade in 2015. This year's celebration had particular significance as it was the first Pride since the passage of the Marriage Equality Referendum in May. The turn-out was smaller than…
An article from The Echo newspaper, dated 23 October, 2019, about LGBTQ+ activist Orla Egan and the work she is doing to digitise the Cork LGBT Archive collection. She talks about the collection starting from the hundreds of items that Arthur Leahy…
An article containing a poem written by LGBTQ+ activist Orla Egan about the passing of her father during a COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The article is accompanied by a photo of her beloved father, Jim Egan.
The Other Place LGBT Resource Centre was opened in 1991 and closed in 2015, with some of the activities being transferred to the new Cork Gay Project offices on South Terrace. These photographs were taken after the centre had closed and just before…
A photograph of the Cork LGBT Archive team gathered before the march, on Grand Parade, Cork, holding the organisation's banner. This was the first outing for the new Cork LGBT Archive banner which was hand painted by the team, led by Darren O'Connor…
A photograph of UCC Students' Union Queer Mural with, pictured from left to right, Dr. Jeremiah Diarmuid Scully (Lecturer in Medieval History, UCC), Mary O'Rourke (Co-Chair of the UCC LGBT+ Staff Network) and Orla Egan (LGBTQ+ rights activist and…