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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Great to hear @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social #JaipurLiteratureFestival @britishlibrary.bsky.social #London
talking Irish Indian links of #Empire. You got to Annie Besant at the end. 😉😊👏

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.

An Irish artist in 18thC India - Thomas Hickey. Tipu Sultan’s summer palace at Srirangaptna near Maysore has some amazing drawings of Tipu’s family & servants. His Indian bibi is in @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social 🇮🇪🇮🇳

Tipu Sultan’s summer palace at Srirangaptna near Maysore has the most remarkable wall murals showing defeat of clean shaven troops from East India Co (in red) vs Tippu’s men & French (in red & facial hair). Tippu (w/ rose) & Count Lally from Galway w/ telescope. Amazing 🤩 🇮🇪🇮🇳

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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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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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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A decade of public debate, critical thinking, and big ideas.💭

💡Join us today (12 May) as we celebrate 10 years of #BehindTheHeadlines with an afternoon of special panels, followed by our Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture.

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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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