AI is helping to uncover the hidden voices of women in early modern Ireland.

The VOICES Project is harnessing new digital tech to document women’s experiences of extreme trauma and civil war in 16th & 17th century Ireland #VoicesProjectTCD

Learn more:
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Join Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network's April Workshop for a public talk by Prof Linda Connolly at NMI-Decorative Arts & History. Explore cross-border women's grassroots activism in Ireland & England since 1918. Free tickets for this Fri. April 26th event available now!
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'the book is not about how to be an artist, so to speak; it’s actually about, how do you live the kind of life you want to live?” -- spoke to the brilliant Sinéad Gleeson about her gorgeous debut novel, Hagstone, for this weekend's Irish Times Magazine
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#OtD 7 Apr 1926 Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate Mussolini, shooting him through the nose. After being beaten & arrested, Gibson tried to be released by convincing doctors she was mad, and was deported to Britain where she died stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10683/…

Cartoonist, suffragist and Irish croquet champion Isa Macnie died in April 1958. Chin Angles, her best known cartoon, was reproduced in Oliver St John Gogarty’s As I Was Going Down Sackville Street.

There is just over a week to go until the thrilling and haunting HAGSTONE by Sinéad Gleeson is out in the world 🌊

Just take a look at some of the incredible praise it's received so far...

We can’t wait for publication 💗

Pre-order now: ow.ly/Ayh950R6BCA

Wrote something on the 40th anniversary of Norah Hoult's death today. You can find some of her work still in print thanks to New Island Books and Persephone Books. This portrait is by Estella Solomons.
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Margaret Connery (née Knight) 49SP1805 in #MSPC Her file is short enough but full of details, including her work in London and her success in gaining the support from George Bernard Shaw and the ILP for the cause of Irish prisoners rte.ie/news/2024/0405…

Fay Taylour 'Flying Fay' 1920s Irish motorcyclist champion speedway rider. Raced in scarlet leathers w' Irish flag in Australia New Zealand Germany. 1930s raced cars internationally #WWII interned as fascist, returned to racing until 1956 b #OTD 5 Apr 1904 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Taylo…

Died #Onthisday 1909 Photographer Jane Shackleton, who documented workers in domestic settings for the 1st time in the history of Irish photography-This📸shows heavily pregnant Bríd Mullen Aran Islands 1895 Aran Island Ferries @finnclodagh More TheJournal.ie thejournal.ie/photos-ireland…

#ThroughHerEyes
Francis Power Cobbe (1822-1904), journalist & author who fought for women’s rights, the protection of animals, and spoke out against domestic violence, died #otd aged 81. Great to see her remembered in Irish Examiner today, along with the downsides of kissing!

Born #Onthisday 1882 in #Cork Tilly Fleischmann-Swertz 'regarded in her youth as one of the most accomplished Irish pianists of her generation, and in later life she achieved national renown as a pedagogue' corkcitylibraries.ie/en/online/read…
from Cork City Libraries Clodagh Finn

ok that’s all for the year. don’t vandalize wikipedia it’s one of the last unenshittified websites

1919: Kathleen Napoli (née McKenna) receives a letter from R Brennan (MSP34REF18488) asking her to join the D É publicity dept, as a paid employee, workg on ‘The Irish Bulletin’ newsletter under the direction of Desmond Fitzgerald (Minister for Propaganda) mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/docs/files//PD…

#ThroughHerEyes
I love it that a Bronze Age girl is looking down on eastbound traffic on the N22 near Macroom in Cork.
Beautiful work by artist Sarah Goyvaerts and one of two sculptures of women. 👏👏👏
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Born in Newbridge, Co Kildare 😍

Most read on #RTEbrainstorm : why everything you thought you knew about Peig Sayers is wrong. By Sorcha de Brún University Of Limerick rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

3/ another revolutionary woman who wrote of her 1916 experience was Margaret Skinnider - she published her eye witness memoir ‘Doing my bit for Ireland’ in 1917. My biography of Skinnider is also available from UCD Press ‘Doing my bit’ can be read online gutenberg.org/cache/epub/527…

1/ For the weekend that’s in it - a selection of extracts from Dr Kathleen Lynn’s diary of 1916, detailing her Easter week experience. She began her diary just before the Rebellion & would keep, daily, until 1955. #diariesofkathleenlynn #easter1916 heritage.rcpi.ie/Projects/Dr-Ka…

Sheila Tinney
1918 – 27 Már 2010
An chéad bhean
a rugadh in Éirinn
a thuill céim
dochtúireachta in eolaíocht mhatamaiticiúil,
faoi mhaoirseacht an fisiceoir iomráiteach, Max Born
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Ceannródaí agus ról múnla do mhná
sa saol acadúil
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