Maurice Casey

I am a Research Fellow at HAPP, working on the AHRC-funded project Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation. My research at QUB focuses on histories of sexuality in early 20^th century Ulster.

I also have an interest in the history of international communism and my current book project is a narrative history of a remarkable hotel in interwar Moscow: the Hotel Lux.

I curated two exhibitions, Out in the World: Ireland’s LGBTQ+ Diaspora and Revolutionary Routes: Ireland and the Black Atlantic, which opened at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin in 2021 and 2022 respectively. In an effort to make a lifelong hobby into a professional interest, I am developing a new research focus in the field of history and video games.

Additionally, I have contributed as a researcher and interviewee for historical podcasts, radio and TV.