The Doctor Who Feigned Manhood

Barrymaniac
/ˈbɑːri meɪnɪak/
noun
person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal for Dr James Barry (1789-1865), a 19th century transgender army surgeon from Cork City, Ireland.

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Enrique Favez

'First Female Gondolier'

Alex Hai has been known as 'prima gondoliera' for years as he has operated as a private gondolier in Venice for many years, unlicencsed, due to rules about women (or those assigned female at birth) becoming gondoliers in Venice. Here are a selection of places you can learn about him:

Radiolab Podcast: The Gondolier (June 15, 2017)
New York Times: On the Canals, a Woman Paddles Against the Tide (May 14, 2007)
Alex Hai's website: Alex Hai Gondala Tours

Other Irish Trans People

Irish Times article about Michael Dillon
Irish Times article about Edward de Lacey Evans
Irish History Podcast piece about Patrick McCormack - 'first' recorded trans person in Dublin
The Irish Story article about Albert D. J. Cashier
Irish Emigration Museum article on the Irish Trans Archive
Independent article about Rebecca Tallon de Havilland
TENI page about Dr Lydia Foy
https://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/edwards.htm - Eliza Edwards (d 1833) from Dublin
https://www.facebook.com/irishtransarchive

Kit Cavanagh

Language and Literacy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by Aidan Doyle, published as chapter 14 of The Cambridge History of Ireland in April, 2018.