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Welcome to the Centre for Deaf Studies

The Centre for Deaf Studies was established in 2001, following many years of lobbying led by the Irish Deaf Society, in partnership with the College, and serves as a centre of excellence in the field of Deaf studies.

Our core activities include undergraduate training for Irish Sign Language teachers and Irish Sign Language/English interpreters, general training in the field of Deaf Studies, and linguistic research focusing on describing Irish Sign Language (ISL).

Our primary role as a teaching institute involves training native/near-native Irish Sign Language users as teachers of ISL, training Irish Sign Language/ English interpreters and broad-based teaching in the area of Deaf Studies. In terms of research, our focus to date has been primarily linguistic and applied linguistic in nature.

CDS is open weekdays between 9:30am - 5:30pm.

  • Address: Centre for Deaf Studies, First Floor, 40 Lower Drumcondra Rd., Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
  • Phone: 01 830 1252
  • Fax: 01 830 1211
  • Email: cdsinfo@tcd.ie.

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