Broschiertes Buch

Jeff McWhinney

Community, Belfast, Catholic Church, Jordanstown Schools

Herausgegeben: Numitor, Gerd

Beschreibung

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jeff McWhinney is a leader in the UK deaf community. He was born in 1960, into a Deaf family in Belfast, both his brother and sister are Deaf. His family did not escape the pain of The Troubles in Northern Ireland when loyalists killed his cousin because she married a Roman Catholic. However, his family who used Northern Ireland Sign Language (NISL) and English, has Irish Sign Language (ISL) friends and Jeff learned ISL on his fishing trips with his father s friend Hugh Keenan. He says the result is he can communicate easily in American Sign Language (ASL), French Sign Language (LSF), ISL, and other sign languages. He was educated at the Jordanstown Schools in Belfast, where there was a teacher who also taught his father. He then went to Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf in the 1970s. After he left school, he returned in Belfast, and was frustrated by that Deaf clubs and organisations were not managed by deaf people. He started the Northern Ireland Workshop with the Deaf which invited speakers such as Paddy Ladd and George Montgomery to speak about Deaf liberation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Flu Press
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138313793
• ISBN-10: 6138313798
• Artikelnr.: 34693254