Acknowledgements

This project has taken time, and many people have contributed in many ways. We acknowledge the excellent scholarship of the practitioners and researchers who prepared the ground for the Active Speech project over many decades. Thanks to our friends, families, students, and audiences who have attended the Deevy talks, workshops, readings, and performances that we have facilitated over the last decade. We thank the practitioners, presenters, and attendees of the Active Speech conference including Irish Sign Language interpreters Isabelle Murphy, Amanda Coogan, Michael Feeney, Vanessa O’Connell, and Caoimhe Coburn-Gray; Dublin Theatre of the Deaf; Charlotte Headrick and Hayden Wilcox; the Abbey Theatre; the Mint Theater; the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (formerly the School of Humanities), and the Centre for Technology-Enhanced Learning (CTEL), South East Technological University (formerly Waterford Institute of Technology) for their support as we convened that conference. The Active Speech conference was made possible with funding support from SETU Research Connexions, Waterford Libraries, and the Waterford Institute of Technology Teaching and Learning Excellence Award.

We thank those who have contributed chapters and their editorial expertise to this collection and the reviewers who offered excellent and constructive criticism. We thank the Open Book Publishers team for their advice, support, and encouragement, and photographers Patrick Brown, Ros Kavanagh, Richard Termine, Carol Rosegg Photography, Patrick Redmond, and Jed Niezgoda for permission to use their artwork.

We acknowledge and are grateful for the support of: the late Phyllis Doolin and the Deevy family, especially the late Clare Brazil, the late Barbara Hearne, Jacqui and Bill Deevy; South East Technological University faculty, in particular, Suzanne Denieffe, Susan Flynn, Erin McNamara Cullen, Jenny O’Connor, Fiona Ennis, Deirdre Grant, Helena Walsh-Kiely, Christa de Brún, Rob O’Connor, Fionnuala Brennan, Helen Arthur, Ken McCarthy, Peter Windle, Susie Cullinane, Jo Holohan, Geraldine Canny, Hannah Butler, Dorothy Hearne, Dayna Killen, and Aaron Kent; Hugh Murphy, Helen Fallon, Roisín Berry, Maynooth University Libraries; Department of English faculty, Maynooth University; David Clare and Fiona McDonagh, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick; Aideen Wylde, University of Galway; Tracey McEneaney and Sinéad O’Higgins, Waterford Libraries; Barry Houlihan, University of Galway; Mairéad Delaney, Abbey Theatre; Barbara McCormack, Royal Irish Academy; Pat McEvoy, Waterford News and Star; Liam Murphy, Munster Express; Geoff Harris and Mary O’Neill, WLR FM; independent journalists Clodagh Finn and Marjorie Brennan; Irish Sign Language interpreter Ela Cichocka; Maria Ryan, National Library of Ireland; Sr June Fennelly and the Ursuline community in Waterford; Joan Dalton; Nicholas Kavanagh; Mick O’Meara; Wexford Libraries; library and archive staff in SETU, Maynooth University, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin, the Abbey Theatre, and the National Library of Ireland; Síle Penkert at Garter Lane Arts Centre; Caroline Senior; Jim Nolan; Mary Boland at Theatre Royal Waterford; and, Willy Maley and Dini Power.

This publication received grant assistance from SETU Research Connexions and Maynooth University.