RTÉ celebrates Irish Sign Language Awareness Week 2024
RTÉ celebrates Irish Sign Language Awareness Week 2024
#ISL #irishsignlanguage #IDSL #BlueforISL #IWDP24
RTÉ is proud to once again support Irish Sign Language Awareness Week from Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th September, which coincides with International Week of Deaf People.
RTÉ in collaboration with The Irish Deaf Society will celebrate our Irish Sign Language (ISL) community, with some additional Irish Sign Language content across the week. RTÉ provides a large catalogue of ISL content throughout the year, highlighting our ongoing commitment to the Deaf/deaf, Hard of Hearing and ISL community in Ireland.
RTÉ will fly The Deaf Flag on its Donnybrook Campus throughout ISL Awareness Week. In addition, on Monday 23rd September, International Day of Sign Languages, the RTÉ sign on RTÉ’s Donnybrook campus will be illuminated in BLUE, a significant colour which symbolises Sign Languages and represents how Deaf communities cherish their own language.
***HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Nationwide
On Friday 27 September, Nationwide will visit the children and teaching staff at Midwest School for the Deaf in Limerick. Bláthnaid will be joined in Phoenix Park by Caroline Worthington (pictured) from RTÉ’s ISL News team. The programme will feature on-screen ISL presentation throughout.
RTÉ News
RTÉ’s daily ISL News will reflect the theme of each day of ISL Awareness Week.
On RTÉ2, news2day will feature some inspiring young Deaf and Hard of Hearing contributors across the week. The team will be visiting The Holy Family School for the Deaf where they’ll talk to children about their rights. ISL Awareness Week will be the theme of news2day’s “Question of the Week” for schools right across the country.
News2day presenter, Barry Gallagher will also meet some prospective Deaflympians at The Deaf Village in Dublin, to talk about their future sporting ambitions.
The Today Show
On Wednesday 25th September, Declan Buckley, presenter of Telly Bingo, joins Daithí on the sofa to chat about his experience as a CODA. (Child of Deaf Adults)
Kids and Children’s Programmes
On RTÉ Kids online, we’ll tell our young viewers about some of the exciting Irish Sign Language shows for young people. You can even watch some on our website:
RTÉjr: Check out these great shows with ISL (rte.ie)
RTÉ2 and RTÉjr will broadcast a number of additional children’s programmes with ISL throughout the week’s schedule.
Arena with Seán Rocks on RTÉ Radio 1
To mark Irish Sign Language Awareness Week, RTÉ Arena, the home of arts and popular culture on RTÉ Radio 1 will make its full show available with live ISL interpretation on Wednesday 27th September, from 7-8pm on www.rte.ie/Arena and on RTÉ News Channel.
RTÉ Player
RTÉ Player will feature a specially curated rail of ISL content, including documentaries of particular interest to the Deaf Community, including:
- Deaf Not Dumb
These programmes and series are also available with Irish Sign Language:
- Raised By The Village
- Inside Penneys
- PJ Gallagher – Changing My Mind
- Invasion: The Normans
- Paths to Paris
- Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
- The Irish for Se
- David Puttnam: The Long Way Home
- Vogue
- Untameable
RTÉ Player will also feature a range of RTÉjr content with ISL, such as:
- Silly Sundays
- Dizzy Deliveries
- Funny Little Monsters
- Body Brothers
- Let’s Find Out
For full ISL catalogue visit RTÉ Player: https://www.rte.ie/player/.
RTÉ Weather
Our ISL Weather team will broadcast additional ISL Weather bulletins on RTÉ News Channel and RTÉ social media.
RTÉ continues to provide ISL classes for employees across the organisation.
For more on ISL Awareness Week on RTÉ, keep an eye on RTÉ’s social media accounts using: #isl #irishsignlanguage #IWDP24
ENDS
Corporate Communications Manager: Neil O’Gorman
NOTES:
- To learn more about the Deaf flag visit: https://wfdeaf.org/deaf-flag/
- For more on International Week of Deaf People visit: https://www.irishdeafsociety.ie/irish-sign-language/international-week-of-deaf-people-2024/
- To find out more about the significance of the colour blue for the Deaf community visit: https://www.irishdeafsociety.ie/about/blue/
- RTÉ will be welcoming some Deaf Trainees from a Coimisiún na Meán-funded production* to RTÉ. The trainees are passionate about media and will spend time with our Access Services team to learn more about subtitles, ISL and Audio Description.
*Curious North Productions is currently in production on a Screen Ireland and CnaM funded feature documentary – it’s the first feature in Irish Sign Language and the first to be produced by a mixed Deaf and hearing team.