A great insight into the project on recovering VOICES of women - from Ireland’s “dung queen” to the alleged 118 yr old Mrs Valentine 💌 @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @voicestcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
04.03.2026 08:11 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
From ‘the dung queen of Ireland’ to Jessie Buckley: @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social recently discussed with Clodagh Finn the importance of sharing early modern women’s stories, advances in AI tools, and how VOICES is leading the charge on both fronts.
A special thank you to Clodagh for the article!
Well worth watching.
22.02.2026 12:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social
06.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Brigid Spotlight #5 (& final): Brigitt Doyne accused of stealing 100 English sheep during the 1641 Rebellion 🐑 @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social #StBrigidsDay
06.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Really looking forward to the 2026 Lahore Lit fest & to talking about Making Empire & VOICES.
06.02.2026 05:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On 30 June 1642 Briggett Drewie recounted her experience of the 1641 rebellion. At the hands of the rebels, she was left a pregnant widow: ‘being left in that miserable state & predicament great with chyld’. Learn more about her story and others here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...
05.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Brigid Spotlight #4: Briggett Drewie was left a pregnant widow after the 1641 Rebellion. She was ‘left in that miserable predicament great with chyld’. From @tcdlibrary.bsky.social
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04.02.2026 15:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Brigid Spotlight #2: Bridget Bermingham whose mother died of smallpox on Merchants Quay Dublin 1685 from the @nlireland.bsky.social Funeral Entries @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
03.02.2026 14:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Do take a moment to check out our voices 🙏🏼
02.02.2026 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
30.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happy St Bridget’s day 💚
30.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Check out my 1st blog for @voicestcd.bsky.social - the Many Brigids of Early Modern Ireland, from pregnant widows to sheep stealing rebels 🇮🇪🐑🌿✨ #StBrigidsDay @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
30.01.2026 16:48 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
The VOICES team is delighted to be offering an MPhil module on ‘The Lived Experiences of Women in Early Modern Ireland’, based on our ERC VOICES project in TCD again this term!
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It’s going to be a great term!
30.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A fabulous trip to Toronto & Ottawa where we celebrated St Bridget’s day & screened From that Small Island. Huge thanks to our amazing Ambassador Concannon & his team & to the warm welcome from our audiences despite Baltic conditions (minus 22 today 🥶). 🇮🇪🇨🇦
30.01.2026 14:54 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2026 JLF was simply fantastic - 4 days of debate, discussion, conversation & fun. So excited that JLF island of Ireland is coming to our shores in May. 🇮🇳🇮🇪
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#Jaipur #JLF
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VOICES team delighted to be back after the holidays and wishing everyone the best for the coming year!
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If you are at the Jaipur Literary Festival this year do join us at 3pm for what will be a fascinating discussion with Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride. Michelle Gallen & Niamh Campbell were wonderful yesterday. 🇮🇪🇮🇳
16.01.2026 02:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Four fascinating pictures by Isaac Mendes Belisario dating from c1840 showing Kelly’s vast plantation. Edmond Kelly of Lisduff Galway was attorney general 1720s & 1740s his son Denis was chief justice w/ an estate of 20,000 acres & 360 enslaved people. His dau Elizabeth married Westport Brownes.
10.01.2026 11:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Visited St Katherine’s church in Spanish town/St Jago de La Vega where William O’Brien earl of Inchiquin was buried in 1692. As governor of Jamaica he lived in the town & lorded it 717 grandees, 10% of Irish extraction. His will is in Island Record Office - he died a v wealthy man.
10.01.2026 00:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A fascinating few days working on the 17C wills in Jamaican archives. Found lots of Irish women & men -Archdeckanes, Butlers, Burkes, Connollys, Dalys, Devereux, Dillons, Dohertys, Donovans, Fitzgeralds, Fitzpatricks, Fitzwilliam, Frenchs, Kellys, Kennedys, Kirwans, etc etc @voicestcd.bsky.social
09.01.2026 11:47 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a fabulous city Delhi is.
08.12.2025 04:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
05.12.2025 14:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer recently delivered the Royal Historical Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', which looked at the project's methodologies, the rewards and challenges of using AI, and some early findings. Read more here:
05.12.2025 14:48 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
It's been a busy few weeks for the VOICES team! On 17th November, Dr Daniel Patterson (@drdpatterson.bsky.social) delivered a paper 'Women waging law: The Chancery Pleadings revisited' at the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar.
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The Hornbill festival in Nagaland is incredible. I’ve never experienced anything like it. So happy to be part of the Irish delegation 🇮🇪
02.12.2025 01:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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It was such an honour to give this lecture about @voicestcd.bsky.social
A huge thank you to the amazing team at @royalhistsoc.org & to everyone who joined us.
