A guide to Irish Pride
Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has created an LGBTQ+ Pride Month digital StoryMap. The map highlights ‘The History of Pride in Ireland’ and features a full schedule of Pride celebrations across the country that will last all summer long.
With the interactive map, developed with Esri’s ArcGIS digital mapping system, users can embark on a captivating journey that follows the story of the LGBTQ+ community in Ireland, discovering pivotal historical moments, significant locations, and transformative events that sparked a profound societal shift towards a more diverse and inclusive Ireland. The map also features LGBTQ+ Resource Centres that offer support, guidance, and meetups across the island of Ireland.
As citizens from every corner of the country prepare to unite in a radiant display of rainbow hues, the Summer of Pride Map is a guide to the vibrant tapestry of Pride festivals and parades that are happening around Ireland. This year, the iconic Dublin Pride Festival (19th - 25th June) celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first Dublin Pride Parade. From Belfast to Galway to Cork there will be theatre, live music, quiz nights, rock & roll bingo, parades, and more. To top it all off, this year Navan is making history with its first-ever Pride Festival next week.
Meanwhile, Virgin Media Television is celebrating Pride with a range of specially produced Pride-themed content, including a full week of interviews, live music, and entertainment across daytime programming before culminating with a dedicated extended Ireland AM Pride show on Saturday 24th June.
With guests such as HIV activist and nurse Aoife Commins, who went public with her HIV diagnosis in 2020, Senator David Norris, who will be talking about the 40 year anniversary of Dublin's first pride march and Eilish O’Carroll from ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ who will be chatting about coming out in her 40s, Ireland AM and The Six O’Clock Show are commemorating Pride with a host of programming and content, celebrating diversity and giving a voice to the LGBTQ+ community.
LGBTQ+ author Ryan Love, Olympian Peter Caruth and former Scissor Sister singer Ana Matronic are also part of the line-up.
On Saturday 24th June, viewers nationwide can watch the Dublin Pride Parade live from the comfort of their sofas with a specially extended Ireland AM from 9am – 1pm. Join Ireland AM’s Elaine Crowley and Brian Dowling Gourounlian hosting from studio with an LGBTQ+ panel of special guests, as well as Martin King reporting live from the parade in Dublin’s city centre. Deric Hartigan will be giving a live sneak preview of ‘Pride Village’ in Merrion Square.
Catch clips from Ireland AM and The Six O’Clock Show on Virgin Media Player, including the history of Pride, LGBTQ+ in Sport and Drag Finger Puppets, amongst other things.
Tune into Virgin Media Television’s daytime shows for a week of Pride-themed content and check out DublinPride.ie for more information on Dublin Pride's parade and events.