Editing James Barry (surgeon) (section)

==In popular culture==
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In 1919, a play entitled ''Dr. James Barry'' by Olga Racster and Jessica Grove, was performed at the [[St James's Theatre|St. James's Theatre]] to a mixed review in ''[[The Observer]]''.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|480834827}} |title=At the Play: DR. JAMES BARRY |newspaper=The Observer |date=27 July 1919 |page=9 }}</ref>

The story of James Barry is briefly told in [[Zoya Voskresenskaya]]'s novel ''Devochka v Burnom More'' (Girl in the Stormy Sea, 1969), whose action takes place during [[World War II|WWII]].<ref name="Lib.Ru">{{cite web |title=Зоя Ивановна Воскресенская. Девочка в бурном море |trans-title=Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya. Girl in the stormy sea |website=Lib.Ru |url=http://lib.ru/PRIKL/WOSKRESENSKAQ_Z/devochka_v_more.txt |language=ru |access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref>

The 1982 [[BBC Radio 4]] production – the 45-minute play, ''Dr Barry'' by Jean Binnie – has seen some longevity and was re-broadcast as recently as 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – Jean Binnie – Dr Barry |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yh0qg |website=BBC |access-date=15 February 2019}}</ref>

In Janet Kagan's 1985 ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''[[Uhura's Song]]'', the character Dr. Evan Wilson owns a spaceship named the ''Dr. James Barry''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kagan |first=Janet |title=Uhura's Song |publisher=Pocket Books |year=1985 |isbn=0-671-65227-3}}</ref>

In 1994, [[Anna Massey]] played Barry in an episode of the BBC [[Docudrama|drama-documentary]] ''The Experiment''.<ref name="BFI" /> Barry was compared with [[Hannah Cullwick]], who "was experimented on by Arhur Munby, who believed that women in servile labour could earn a nobility of the soul".<ref>{{cite web |title=An Experiment (1994) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d7be08e |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921052235/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d7be08e |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 September 2018 |website=BFI |access-date=15 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

Barry's life is the subject of the historical novel ''James Miranda Barry'' (published in the United States as ''The Doctor'') by [[Patricia Duncker]].{{sfn|Duncker|2000|p=}}

A 2004 play, ''Whistling Psyche'' by [[Sebastian Barry]], imagines a meeting between James Barry and [[Florence Nightingale]].<ref name="curtainup" />

In 2012, the UK folk duo Gilmore and Roberts included a song about Barry called Doctor James on their album ''The Innocent Left''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2013/10/watch-gilmore-roberts-doctor-james/ |title=Watch: Gilmore & Roberts – Doctor James |date=28 October 2013 |website=Folk Radio UK – Folk Music Magazine |language=en-GB |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref>

In 2016, the TV series ''Herstory: Ireland's EPIC Women'' featured Barry as the subject of episode 3 as a part of the Herstory 20/20 Project.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr James Barry - Herstory Ireland's Epic Women {{!}} EPIC Museum |url=https://blog.epicchq.com/herstory-irelands-epic-women-dr-james-barry |access-date=12 July 2023 |website=blog.epicchq.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Museum |first=EPIC The Irish Emigration |title=Herstory Ireland's EPIC Women on RTÉ {{!}} EPIC Museum |url=https://dublin.epicchq.com/epic-museum-rte-herstory-irelands-epic-women |access-date=12 July 2023 |website=dublin.epicchq.com |language=en}}</ref>

In April 2018, [[Rachel Weisz]] said that she was developing a [[biopic]] of Barry, and intended to produce and star in it.<ref name="Maureen Dowd The New York Times 2018">{{cite news |first=Maureen |last=Dowd |author-link=Maureen Dowd |title=Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise |work=The New York Times |date=20 April 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/style/rachel-weisz-disobedience-movie.html |access-date=26 April 2018}}</ref>{{needs update|date=February 2020}}

In February 2019, [[E. J. Levy]]'s novel based on Barry, ''The Cape Doctor,'' was acquired by [[Little, Brown and Company]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/18/new-novel-about-dr-james-barry-sparks-row-over-victorians-gender-identity |title=New novel about Dr James Barry sparks row over Victorian's gender identity |work=[[The Guardian]] |last=Flood |first=Allison |date=18 February 2019 |access-date=23 February 2019}}</ref> The announcement was met with controversy because Levy refers to Barry as "she" and a "heroine,"<ref name="Gavia Baker-Whitelaw The Daily Dot 2019">{{cite web |first=Gavia |last=Baker-Whitelaw |title=Writers want this book canceled for misgendering its protagonist |website=The Daily Dot |date=15 February 2019 |url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/cape-doctor-book-james-barry-transgender/ |access-date=16 February 2019}}</ref> though Levy has stated that the novel also refers to Barry as "he" and "I".<ref name=Bustle>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/a-forthcoming-book-about-surgeon-dr-james-barry-has-sparked-important-conversation-about-trans-stories-15956807|title=A Forthcoming Book About Surgeon Dr. James Barry Has Sparked An Important Conversation About Trans Stories|website=Bustle|date=25 February 2019 }}</ref> The novel was published in June 2021, and it tells the story of a fictional woman named Margaret Brackley, who becomes Dr. Jonathan Perry, who is based on Barry.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Becker |first1=Alida |title=Fiction Based on Real People and Places, for Better and for Worse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/books/review/cape-doctor-ej-levy-catherine-chidgey-remote-sympathy-jonathan-lee-great-mistake-jh-gelernter-hold-fast.html |access-date=16 August 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=13 July 2021}}</ref>

In 2024, Irish musician [[Wallis Bird]] collaborated with the German classical quintet Spark to release a single about Barry titled "Dr. James Barry".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Nicole |date=2024-03-08 |title=Wallis Bird releases new single honouring 19th-century Irish trans physician Dr James Barry |url=https://gcn.ie/new-single-wallis-bird-james-barry/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=GCN |language=en}}</ref> The song was also included on the subsequent album Visions of Venus.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clayton-Lea |first=Tony |date=2024-04-18 |title=Wallis Bird & Spark: Visions of Venus – Bringing 1,000 years of music by women to life with vigour and insight |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2024/04/18/wallis-bird-spark-visions-of-venus-bringing-1000-years-of-music-by-women-to-life-with-vigour-and-insight/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref>