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FAIRVIEW PARK

By Ellie HODGETTS, Aymeric NICOLET

Social issues - Completed 2023

Declan Flynn, a man struggling for self-acceptance, is preyed upon by a gang of self-described ‘Queer-bashers’ in Dublin, 1982. Based on the true story seen as a major catalyst for Ireland’s gay rights movement.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Social issues, Female director, LGBT
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 15 mn
- Director(s)
- Ellie HODGETTS, Aymeric NICOLET
- Writer(s)
- Ellie HODGETTS
- Cast
- Denis GRINDEL, Amanda HURWITZ
- Producer(s)
- Joseph TAPP
- Synopsis
- Declan Flynn was a 31-year-old man from Dublin who was chased and killed by a gang of teenagers in Fairview park, 1982, on the assumption that he was gay. The teenagers were arrested and taken to trial but were given suspended sentences and walked free, with the judge on the case stating that:
  
  ‘this could never be regarded as murder... there is no element of correction required. All of you come from good homes and experienced care and affection.’
  
  The injustice of not only the murder but the outcome of the trial, is seen as the catalyst that sparked Ireland’s biggest gay and women’s rights movement.
  
  The film will follow the last day of Declan Flynn and his personal struggle of identity and self-acceptance in 1980s Dublin before his brutal murder that very night.