is an Irish civil rights campaigner, former university lecturer, and longtime member of Seanad Éireann

He is the founder of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform with current President of Ireland Mary McAleese and had Mary Robinson as one of his campaign's legal advisors

A prominent member of the Church of Ireland, he has been mentioned as possibly the next President of Ireland, having been offered a nomination in the 1997 presidential election

David Norris was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in Ireland

A resident of North Great George's Street in Dublin, he is a member of the Irish Georgian Society and is an active campaigner for the preservation of Irish Georgian buildings

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is also a well-known Joycean scholar, and plays a large part in Dublin's annual Bloomsday celebrations

razor-sharp wit has made him a popular figure in modern Irish political life

a Louis Armstrong fan

describes himself as a human rights activist

to his wit