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‘A Different Country’ on the fight for LGBT rights in Ireland to air 21:35 on RTÉ One Wed, June 21st
20 Jun 2017 : Katie McNeice
Edmund Lynch’s landmark documentary saw him record over 160 interviews with those affected by the movement to decriminalise homosexuality in Ireland.

As both producer and director Lynch began filming the hour-long footage in 2013, where he spoke to older LGBT people about their experiences of growing up in an Ireland which considered their most intimate relationships a crime.

Those interviewed include Mary Robinson, the president who signed into law the 1993 bill decriminalising homosexuality.

It explores the budding stages of LGBT people becoming mobilised, from the founding of The Sexual Liberation Movement in 1973 (a meeting of no more than ten people in Trinity College Dublin) through the 2015 marriage referendum, to present day interviews with those who hid their sexuality from friends, coworkers and even family members, in a bid to remain safe.

‘A Different Country’ has its festival premiere at the 2016 GAZE International Film Festival, where it was awarded the title of the Best Documentary Feature.

‘A Different Country’ features Terri Blanche, Tom Brace, Declan Buckley, Noel Buckley, Suzy Byrne, Clem Clancy, Claire Farrell, Bill Foley, Karl Hayden, Patrick Lynch, Victoria Mullen, David McConnell, Ciaran McKinney and Tonie Walsh, Phil Moore and former President Mary Robinson.





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