Irish actor and co-founder of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, part of the first openly gay couple in Irish public life who embodied a highbrow aesthetic tradition
"The first openly gay couple in Irish public life were a pair called Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards, who founded the Gate theatre in Dublin. Mac Liammóir was a fascinating character, an Englishman with no Irish connections who moved here, changed his name, and spent the rest of his life pass"