VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND

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Institute of Historical Research Lecture: Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work  - VOICES On November the 20th, VOICES PI, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical research entitled:  Making a living in early modern Dublin: women and work  https://www.hist...

Last week, VOICES PI Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical Research entitled: 'Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work'. Find out more at the link below:

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Keynote Lecture at the Catholic Record Society Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency, and Catholicism in Early Modern Ireland - VOICES By Dr Bronagh Ann McShane In July 2025, I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference, held at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. My paper, ‘Hiding ...

Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:

Jane Ohlmeyer delivers the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture - RHS On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Jane's lecture in...

Our great thanks to Jane Ohlmeyer who gave the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture on Friday evening.

Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians

Blog 9: My Summer of Wills - VOICES By Sophie Erschen I first learnt of the VOICES project when Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, our Principal Investigator, held a guest lecture at my home university, the University of Vienna, in March 2025. I ...

🚨New VOICES blog!! Sophie Erschen reflects on her summer internship and her work researching women's wills. Read more at our website:

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Viragos and Matrons: The lived experiences of Women in seventeenth-century Dublin - VOICES October the 7th saw the launch of the publication arising from Professor Jane Ohlmeyer’s delivery of the 2024, 27th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture entitled ‘The lived experiences of ...

Last Tuesday marked the launch of VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer's publication arising from the 27th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture entitled 'Viragos and Matrons: The lived experiences of women in seventeenth-century Dublin', at Dublin City Library and Archive. Read more below:

Trinity Today 2025 Dr Smith at Spandau Born in 1927, Trinity graduate Dr Hillas Smith, MB (1951), worked at London’s Royal Free and Northwick Park hospitals. During 1950s nat

Great to see "From that Small Island" featured on page 64/65 of Trinity Today @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Great exhibits on women at the Jamestown museum in Virginia. Of the 900 colonists in 1620 census 200 were women & children. With time the number increased.
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Inspiring doesn’t begin to capture just how amazing the national museum of African American history & culture is. I loved everything about it esp the coverage afforded to women. Lonnie Bunch was the creative genius & it was my pleasure to welcome him to @tlrhub.bsky.social
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It was a great pleasure to deliver the opening keynote address at the @catholicrs.bsky.social conference last month. I spoke on the subject of Catholic women & the probate courts in #earlymodern Ireland, part of my ongoing research for the @erc.europa.eu funded project @voicestcd.bsky.social

I am reviewing Reforming Galway, the last wonderful book by the late Raymond Gillespie. I was thrilled to visit St Nicholas church to see it, esp the font & the only cherub to escape Cromwellian iconoclasm. The memorial to Jane Eyre is also fascinating for our @voicestcd.bsky.social

So excited to see the feature of From That Small Island at the Galway Film Festival. Thanks to the great audience who joined us on such a sunny afternoon for our screening & Q&A. ☀️🤩☀️
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Heartfelt congratulations to the VRTI team for this remarkable contribution.
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Blog 8: Signed with her mark: Women’s wills in local history journals - VOICES By Ella Mae Cromie In 1733, Catherine Deane left £2 to ‘the roman poor of the parish’ and £6 to her parish priests in her will (1). Fifty-five years before writing her final bequest, Catherine had bee...

🚨 New VOICES blog! Our intern Ella Mae Cromie reflects on her search for women's wills in local history journals and the discoveries it revealed.

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Delighted to speak at the Hinterland festival in the beautiful town of Kells, home to two magnificent High Crosses. Thrilled to catch up with @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social
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Image attached of writer and producer Bríona Nic Dhiarmada with series’ historical consultant and associate producer Jane Ohlmeyer and the wider production team

VOICES PI Jane Ohlmeyer was delighted to host the pre-screening of From That Small Island in TCD on June 6th. Tune in to the 4 part series on RTE 1 Sunday nights at 6:30.
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Blog 7: From Handwritten Funeral Entries to Machine-Readable Texts – An internship opportunity using Transkribus to perform HTR - VOICES By Robin Dresel With increasing digitisation, more content becomes available to be processed through computational means. Regardless of how expansive the information on the internet is, a large amount...

Explore the latest VOICES blog by our intern Robin Dresel: he shares a guide on using Transkribus to turn handwritten Funeral Entries into digital texts.
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‘We Irish were never homogeneous. Always hybrids, always mongrels’ - VOICES New RTÉ TV series tells the story of the island over thousands of years in a way that both informs and challenges Mark Hennessy Courtesy of the Irish Times, Sat May 31 2025 – 17:57 From That Small Isl...

VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer is historical consultant and associate producer for From That Small Island: The Story of the Irish. The series is narrated by Colin Farrell and begins on RTÉ on Sunday 8th June.

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DARIAH-IE Appoints New Committee to Support National Coordinator in Revitalising Irish Digital Arts & Humanities Research Infrastructure - VOICES DARIAH-IE, the Ireland node of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, proudly announces the appointment of a new national committee to guide the work of the Nati...

DARIAH-IE, Irish node of pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, appoints new national committee, featuring VOICES' own Prof Declan O'Sullivan and chaired by PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer

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At the Precipice of Possibility: Reflections on the Generative AI and Historical Research Workshop - VOICES By Dr Bronagh Ann McShane On 7 May 2025, more than fifty individuals gathered at Trinity College Dublin for the workshop, ‘Generative AI and Historical Research’. Convened as part of the ERC-funded VO...

See our report on a recent workshop exploring Generative AI and Historical Research, convened by VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane:

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Blog 6: Building the VOICES Knowledge Graph of Early-Modern Irish Women - VOICES A Knowledge Graph (KG) is a way of representing information as a network of entities, such as people, places, events, and concepts, and the relationships between them. Rather than storing data in flat...

See our most recent blog by our Knowledge Engineer Dr Lucy McKenna: Building a "Knowledge Graph" to represent and interconnect non-elite women in early modern Ireland.

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Visit to the University of Sheffield - VOICES By Dr Daniel Patterson In March 2025, VOICES PI Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Research Fellow Dr Daniel Patterson visitedThe University of Sheffield to attend a workshop on Women and the courts: New wor...

VOICES' own Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Dr Daniel Patterson recently spoke at a terrific workshop on women's history and court records at the University of Sheffield. See more in our latest blog:

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The VOICES & VRTI teams were delighted to welcome Prof Willie Smyth back to Trinity. A fabulous session discussing early modern Irish personal and place names. We learned so much!

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Blog 5: Giving Voice to the Past: How AI Helps Us Listen - VOICES NLP on VOICES project

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Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland:

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Podcast: Jane Ohlmeyer on Section 900: Histories from Trinity College - VOICES Hear Professor Jane Ohlmeyer speak about the VOICES project to Marie Stamp on the the Section 900: Histories from Trinity College podcast. 1. Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sec...

Hear @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social speak about the VOICES project to Marie Stamp on the the Section 900: Histories from Trinity College podcast.

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Really enjoyed speaking to students at Vienna University about the 1641 Depositions & our @erc.europa.eu @voicestcd.bsky.social project.

Also great to see the newly published anthology ‘Voices from the Colonised’. Delighted to contribute an essay on Colonial Ireland. Congrats to the editors.

Irish Studies in a Changing Europe Symposium - VOICES Dr Bronagh Ann McShane, Research Fellow on the VOICES team, recently travelled to  Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany, to present at the ‘Irish Studies in a Changing Europe’ symposium....

In February, Research Fellow @bamcshane.bsky.social was in Germany to participate in a symposium on ‘Irish Studies in a Changing Europe’. She showcased how the project is using #AI to uncover women’s experiences in #earlymodern Ireland

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