Life, love and death
David Norris – academic, Joycean scholar, campaigner for Georgian Dublin, senator, bon viveur, and, perhaps most famously, the man who forced 20th-century Ireland to recognise its gay citizens and legislate for them
W hen David Norris dies, his friends, family, and admirers will – according to his plan – assemble in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin for his funeral.
There, they will participate in his final Haydn Mass – he has been attending services in St Patrick’s since he was three – “with two “wonderful, weepy Victorian hymns”, as he describes them.
There will be more than just the traditional rites, however. As his body ...