Eirebrushed

Eirebrushed is the story of the gay and lesbian heroes of the Irish Rebellion of 1916. Eirebrushed stars Maria Blaney as nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, who was famously airbrushed out of the 1916 surrender photograph, Flo McSweeney as author, trade unionist and activist sister of Countess Markievicz, Eva Gore Booth, John Kelly as poet-turned-revolutionary Padraig Pearse, and Stephen Gorman as human rights activist Roger Casement. The four revolutionaries return 100 years after the 1916 rising to tell the hidden stories of the lives of some of the heroes who would not ‘fit’ the vision of the new ‘Republic of equals’ that was promised in the Irish revolution.

Full of humour, pathos and actual testimony, Eirebrushed seeks to challenge the conventional Irish Republican stereotype and to set out the contribution of lesbian and gay people at a time of struggle to overcome oppression in Ireland.