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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

Read her report here;

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Jaipur Literary Festival - VOICES By Professor Jane Ohlmeyer Speaking at the 2025 Jaipur Literary Festival in India was a real treat.  It is the largest literary festival in India and attracts huge crowds from across the globe.  In a ...

The VOICES team have been busy of late: in January VOICES PI @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social travelled to India to participate in the Jaipur Literary Festival - read all about it here; voicesproject.ie/impact/jaipu...

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#GenAI & Historical Research; how do we contend with the challenges? Are there opportunities? Join us for an in person workshop @tlrhub.bsky.social on 7 May. For booking DM/email me mcshaneb@tcd.ie
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Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1) Podcast Episode · Empire · 20/02/2025 · 35m

Hear @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social on ‘Ireland and Empire’ series on the EMPIRE Podcast with @anitaanand.bsky.social & @willdalrymple.bsky.social (800,000+ listeners & #1 in Irish Apple Podcasts)

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Meet the VOICES team: Dr Diego Rincon-Yanez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in NeuroSymbolic #AI
In VOICES, Diego applies Semantic Web Technologies and Machine Learning techniques to uncover the history of women in early modern Ireland @adaptcentre.bsky.social
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‘Do recent reforms signify a genuine commitment to inclusivity or are they merely symbolic gestures aimed at appeasing critics?’, my Op Ed in Sunday’s Rite&Reason column @irishtimes.com #catholichistory #nuntastic #popefrancis
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We had a fantastic day in Sheffield at a workshop on early modern courts. Really enjoyed all the papers & talking about our ERC VOICES project. 🙏🏼

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Our Research Fellow Daniel Patterson is now on Bluesky follow him @drdpatterson.bsky.social

Excited to announce this lunchtime a workshop on #GenAI & Historical Research, in person @tlrhub.bsky.social on 7 May. For more details & booking contact me: mcshaneb@tcd.ie

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International Women's Day is a reminder of The Untold Stories of Ireland’s Forgotten Women now uncovered in Chancery Records:

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VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer has joined Bluesky.

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‘Charting a path forward for Irish Women’s History in the Era of AI’, my contribution to ‘Irish Studies in a Changing Europe’ symposium @
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For the day that’s in it: in 1707 Mary De St Julien Adlecron, a French Huguenot & Widow living in Dublin, bequeathed her ‘little tankard of Hearts‘ to her grandniece, Emily 💕💓❣️#galentines #stvalentinesday #earlymodern @voicestcd.bsky.social

Check out the latest VOICES blog by Research Fellow, Dr Madina Kurmangaliyeva: ‘Quantitative
Analysis and Violence in Historical Materials: The 1641 Depositions’

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