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Poster<\/h1>

Poster<\/h1>

Vocalic Bodies and Spaces — using animation to create Irish language representation in unionist East Belfast<\/h1>

I wish to discuss how can animation \u2013 in the current context in Northern Ireland, where the Irish language has been divisively politicised along sectarian lines \u2013 is uniquely capable of generating representation of the language and disseminating it in a way that minimises the risk of backlash. To do this I will draw on Conner\u2019s twin concept of \u201cvocal bodies\u2019 and \u2018vocalic spaces\u2019 (2000) that argue for the world-generating powers of voice in the animation context. I will also lean on Roe\u2019s work (2013) on indexicality and how its unique plasticity in animation enables factual animation to successfully tell contentious stories in fraught political contexts by mitigating the risk of negative response.
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\nI will use the practice-as-research work I\u2019ve done in the ongoing \u201cUlster Gaeilge: It\u2019s Yours Too!\u201d research project as a case study. In that project, I use animation as a tool to create representation of a small and rapidly growing population of Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist (PUL) learners and speakers of the Irish language, who are based in East Belfast and beyond.
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\nThe research responds to the learning and cultural claiming of Irish that\u2019s happening today among a growing population of people of PUL backgrounds in Northern Ireland. There are historical precedents of Irish speakers and activists in the PUL community that go back to the 18th century. Those, and the current day phenomenon of Irish language learning in PUL community, have not part of present-day mainstream media representations or public discourse around the language. Animation, my research finds, is valuable and crucial tool through which to create and disseminate this representation.
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\nThemes central to this project include: place, identity and the evolving relationship between them both; private and public space; places of learning and pedagogical strategy; places\/identities that have been forgotten how animation can help \u2018de-repress\u2019 the past.<\/p><\/p><\/div>

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Don Duncan\/Don \u00d3 Donnach\u00e1in<\/p>

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Queen’s University Belfast<\/p>

Biography
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Don Duncan\/Don \u00d3 Donnach\u00e1in is an academic, journalist and storyteller whose practice and research extends across both audiovisual and live, spoken word formats. He has recently completed a PhD at the University of East Anglia and has three master\u2019s degrees (MSc in Journalism and an MA in Politics, both from Columbia University; MA in Scriptwriting and Film Directing from INSAS, the Belgian state film school) as well as a BA in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin.<\/p>\n

As a journalist and documentarian, he has over two decades of international experience for outlets including: the BBC, RTE, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and others.<\/p>\n

His current research interests include factual animation, docu-fiction and other innovations in the blending of fact and fiction; innovations in technology and their impacts on storytelling form; media and multilingualism; Irish language media; podcasting; and audio drama.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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“Gail” — Ulster Gaeilge: It’s Yours Too!<\/p>