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upped sticks and moved might have gone to the uk or wherever they went went to a country that was more liberal with its attitudes or where the community was larger so you could feel that security. and then, of course, ireland has progressed so much. # gonna get married. ireland was the first country to legalise gay marriage in 2015 through a referendum. all cheer. covid aside, cork has vibrant pride celebrations and now, danny la rue s grandnephew has established a leading collective of drag performers the house of mockie ah! we are ireland s first drag house and we are now the biggest house other ones are springing up and there s this incredible scene where, like, you see all of these different styles of drag and performers which we didn t have before, and a lot of that comes down to the fact that we now have social media and things like ru paul s drag race, which bring drag into your home.
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this is ennis, co clare, a lovely old town, narrow streets, bookshops, just what you would expect from an irish town. but where i am going, now spokes of ennis, is actually a car park, because it is here where the aerial dance company fitted feet are doing a performance of the first show since the start of the pandemic, made possible largely through local authority finding. the show is designed to give a child s view of the world, as it emerges from the pandemic the group is led by chantelle mccormack, a leading voice in the challenges for the arts in ireland during the covid crisis. in terms of the