‘Deaf Liberator’—the life and times of Francis Maginn, 1861–1918

By Noel O’Connell Francis Maginn was the foremost pioneer of the deaf community in Ireland and Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. No one enjoyed such prominence, status and acclaim in the deaf world of the time. From being a teacher of deaf children at the Royal School for the Deaf in ... Read more

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