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O'Connell, Noel – Sign Language Studies, 2021
There is a dearth of qualitative research concerning deaf people's experiences of participating in the Irish Sign Language (ISL) recognition movement, and this limits our ability to understand the opportunities and constraints they encountered as they negotiated their way toward the passing of the ISL Act 2017. While ISL is unique to Ireland, it…
Descriptors: Deafness, Activism, Foreign Countries, Sign Language
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O'Connell, Noel Patrick – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
This ethnographic study examines deaf people's experience of the Roman Catholic Sacrament of Confession in two Catholic schools for deaf children in the Republic of Ireland from 1950 to 1990. The article fills a gap in Catholic deaf education literature that fails to uncover the experiences of deaf children. It provides space for their storied…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Deafness, Catholics, Religious Education