What a privilege to screen From that Small Island at the iconic Cine Brasilia designed by Oscar Niemeyer. It was simply fabulous. 🤩
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I was so delighted to see the Portuguese translation of Making Empire. A huge thank you to the press & the team of amazing translators at USP who made it happen. Obrigado. 🇮🇪🇧🇷
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Good morning! The Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival is in full swing — and today brings another exciting programme of events.😊

Check out what’s happening today and join us for inspiring talks and lively discussions.🎙️

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Ambassador de Burca got the ‘Turns of the Centuries’ conference at UNAM in Mexico City off to a great start as he overviews the many historical & literary connections between Ireland & Latin America. Then Clare Connolly gives a cracking keynote on the writing of Irish women.🇮🇪 🇲🇽

Ireland and UK share lessons on Palestine before two-state announcement | The National Ireland has opposed Israel's military campaign in Gaza and now UK is set to recognise Palestine

"Ireland was Britain's oldest colony. This has undoubtedly shaped how people from Ireland engage with postcolonial conflicts"

Prof @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social (School of Histories & Humanities) comments on the roots of Ireland's position on Palestine for @thenationalnews.com

Read now: bit.ly/3VjYKda

Save the date. 👇
Really looking forward to visiting Brazil again later this month. Do join us if you can. All welcome. 🤗

A fantastic performance of Translations at Dunlewey as part of the Friel festival with a visit to the deserted village of Glentoran before the play. Stunning evening in magnificent Donegal.

Jane Ohlmeyer is pictured in a still image taken from the series. She is standing in a field and is wearing a white shirt and a navy hat. Photo credit: COCO Content

📣New on #researchMATTERS today: Prof Bríona Nic Dhiarmada and Prof Jane Ohlmeyer talk to us about Trinity’s impact on the documentary series exploring 10,000 years of Irish history.

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The National Museum of the American Indian esp the gallery on Treaties - later “bad paper” - tells an extraordinary story of conquest, expropriation & assimilation (aka ‘civilisation’).
Sound familiar?
Also noteworthy that Andrew Jackson’s parents were “Ulster Scots” who left Ireland in 1765.

Found the battlefield sites at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville & Bull Run to be very moving. Men from Ireland served on both sides & 1000s died or were wounded. ☘️

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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The National park at Appomattox Virginia - where the American civil war finally ended - is incredibly well done. So enjoyed our time there.

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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Delighted to visit Daniel O’Connell’s beautiful house in wonderful Derrynane in Kerry.

On 12/22 July 1691 the battle of Aughrim was fought resulting in the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamites. One of the bloodiest battles on Irish soil w 7000 being killed.
Also took the opportunity to visit the well preserved castle & the impressive Dominican priory at Athenry.

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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The Strokestown Famine Museum is so worth a visit.

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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From that small island: the story of the Irish. Hope you enjoy it.

Can’t tell you how much I enjoyed our session on Making empire with the fabulous @anitaanand.bsky.social & @willdalrymple.bsky.social
Speaking in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social as part of the Jaipur Lit Fest made it even more special. 🙏🏼🇮🇪🇮🇳
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Thanks for coming along - great getting to meet you.
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Jaipur comes to the British Library. Really looking forward to the weekend ☀️

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On the look out for women from early modern Ireland in the College of Arms, housed in an incredible 17th building in the heart of historic London & beside St Paul’s. Delighted to see this wonderful portrait of William Camden, historian & herald. @voicestcd.bsky.social

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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Really enjoyed chatting to you Mark. Hope you enjoy the series.