Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform

The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was an organisation set up to campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s. Its most prominent leader was David Norris, an English language lecturer in Trinity College, Dublin, Joycean scholar and from the 1980s to the present a member of Seanad Éireann, the Irish Senate.

Related Topics:
Republic of Ireland - 1970s - David Norris - Trinity College, Dublin - 1980s - Seanad Éireann

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Its first legal advisor was Mary McAleese, Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College, Dublin, who also later acted as a media advisor to the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops. She is currently President of Ireland, having been elected in 1997. After she left the campaign to become a journalist with Radio Telefís Éireann, Ireland's national media broadcaster, she was succeeded by Mary Robinson, a former Reid Professor of Law and member of Seanad Éireann, who was elected President of Ireland in 1990.

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Mary McAleese - Trinity College, Dublin - President of Ireland - 1997 - Radio Telefís Éireann - Mary Robinson - Seanad Éireann - 1990

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Homosexuality was finally decriminalised in 1993 by the Fianna Fáil/Labour government under then Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds. An equal age of consent was provided for homosexuals and heterosexuals alike.

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1993 - Fianna Fáil - Labour - Taoiseach - Albert Reynolds

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See also: gay rights movement

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