Queer treasons: Homosexuality and Irish national identity

Queer Treasons suggests how and why homosexuality has been placed outside t he limited discourse of what constitutes 'Trishness.' I argue that, since t he early part of the twentieth century, homosexuality has been represented as 'foreign' to nationalisms in Ireland, particularly when the borders of t he nation are perceived to be under threat. I further suggest that the thre at of homosexuals, as represented in Irish political discourse, points more generally toward an instability in the discourses of nation itself.