"Déantar Neamhní den Bhuan-ní": Aitigh, Aontachtaithe agus an Ghaeilge

Don Ó Donnacháin

"Déantar Neamhní den Bhuan-ní": Aitigh, Aontachtaithe agus an Ghaeilge

Translated title of the contribution: "All That is Solid Melts Into Air": Gays, Unionists and the Irish language

Don Ó Donnacháin^* (Performer)

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Arts, English and Languages

Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

Abstract

A repurposed, reframed version of a previously performed practice-based research experiment into how a hybrid of interview recordings and sound design, combined with live stage performance can be used to explore the past and probe and test the limits of memoir. In this version made for the Liú Lúnasa fringe festival in Belfast, I performed the bulk of the piece in Irish with sections also in English and Portuguese.

EVENT PITCH:
Join Don on his journey from alienated beginnings as a gay kid in small town Ireland in the 80s to the grown-up man he now is... through sound and memory, he seeks to understand the sources of childhood unease and shame that still pull at him today and he discoverers an unexpected kinship with unionist gaeilgeoirí (Irish speakers) in East Belfast. This narrative performance – in spoken word and recorded sound - tells of how the rigid constructs and mindsets of yesterday are melting and giving way to new, exciting possibilities...

Translated title of the contribution	"All That is Solid Melts Into Air": Gays, Unionists and the Irish language
Original language	Multiple languages
Publication status	Published - 21 Aug 2019
Event	Liú Lúnasa: Féile Imeall-Chultúir Bhéal Feirste \| Belfast's Fringe-Culture Festival - Multiple sites across the city, Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 21 Aug 2019 → 25 Aug 2019

Keywords

Gaeilge
Irish
Unionists
childhood
memoir
sound art
performance
experimental
belfast
Liú Lúnasa

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Language and Linguistics
Visual Arts and Performing Arts

1 Paper
1 Article

Sound Excavations: Exploring Audio's Unique Power to Excavate and Reconstruct Erased, Lost and Hidden LGBT Pasts
Duncan, D., 10 Sept 2021.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Excavating hidden and forgotten pasts with sound
Duncan, D., 27 Aug 2020, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

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"Déantar Neamhní den Bhuan-ní": Aitigh, Aontachtaithe agus an Ghaeilge

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Sound Excavations: Exploring Audio's Unique Power to Excavate and Reconstruct Erased, Lost and Hidden LGBT Pasts

Excavating hidden and forgotten pasts with sound

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