In recent issues of GCN there’s been much talk about the issue of rural isolation in Ireland - of LGBT+ people feeling they couldn’t access their community, feeling apart. Meeting some of the committee members of Greenbow, they described another way of feeling isolated from your community, even in a big city such as Dublin - when you are literally communicating in a different language.
It’s a busy day in the Deaf Village in Cabra. There’s a day group for seniors filling up the large space beside the reception area and the canteen is buzzing with people. Current Greenbow secretary, Leesa Brennan, meets me and brings me into a small office to meet Dominic McGreal and Connor Desmond. With no real knowledge of sign language - I know the alphabet and the odd word here and there but nowhere near enough to hold a conversation - Leesa interprets some of what the guys have to say. Already I realise how difficult it could be to communicate if we weren’t in a small room like the one we are in and which we have to ourselves. What if we were in a crowded nightclub? That exact example comes up later in our chat.
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