My thesis looks at the experiences of Irish Deaf people within existing and emerging State and voluntary institutions in Ireland between 1851 and 1922, looking particularly at schools, workhouses, courts, and prisons.
Jones, Alvean and Cormac Leonard, ‘Anna Eakins’ in Josephine O’Leary and Alvean Jones (eds), Through the Arch: St Mary’s School for Deaf Girls, Remembering 170 Years from 1846-2016 (Dublin, 2017), pp 115–117
Leonard, Cormac, ‘Deaf Education in Ireland before 1816’ in Josephine O’Leary and Alvean E. Jones (eds), Through the Arch: St Mary’s School for Deaf Girls, Remembering 170 Years from 1846-2016 (Dublin, 2016), p. 2
Leonard, Cormac, ‘Drogheda’s Deaf Heritage, 1816 – 2016’ in Anthony McIntyre (ed.), Reflections on the 1916 Rising (Drogheda, 2016), pp 45–60
Leonard, Cormac, ‘“A Previous Misbehaviour”: The Death of Jane O’Brien’ in Josephine O’Leary and Alvean E. Jones (eds), Through the Arch: St Mary’s School for Deaf Girls, Remembering 170 Years from 1846-2016 (Dublin, 2016), pp 185–187
Leeson, Lorraine, John Saeed, Deirdre Byrne-Dunne, Alison Macduff and Cormac Leonard, ‘Moving Heads and Moving Hands: Developing a Digital Corpus of Irish Sign Language. The ’Signs of Ireland’ Corpus Development Project’ in Proceedings of Information Technology and Telecommunications Conference, Carlow, Ireland, 2006 (https://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/2262/1597/1/ITT paper vfinal.pdf).
Peer Reviewed Journals
Leonard, Cormac and John Bosco Conama, ‘In Search of ISL’s Pre-History: The complex origins of Irish sign language(s?)’ in Teanga: Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, no. 11 (2020) (https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/190)
Leonard, Cormac, ‘Signs of Diversity: Use and Recognition of Gendered Signs among Young Irish Deaf People’ in Deaf Worlds, xxi, no. 2 (2005), pp 62–77.
Other Journals
Leahy, Anne and Cormac Leonard, ‘An Interpreter in the Missioner Era’ in British Deaf News, no. February (2016), pp 25–28
Leahy, Anne and Cormac Leonard, ‘The 19th century deaf relay interpreter’ in British Deaf News, no. March (2016), pp 34–36
Leonard, Cormac, ‘Jeremiah Purcell: A Tralee Deaf Man’s Life of Poverty and Crime’ in Kerry Magazine, no. 24 (2014), pp 30–32
Jones, Alvean and Cormac Leonard, ‘The Irish Deaf Archives: Anna Eakins, a Deaf woman in the “Idiot Ward”’ in Irish Deaf News (2013)
