Explore the extraordinary stories of injured veterans, widows and orphans of the British civil wars that have been uncovered through the work of the Civil War Petitions Project! 🔗 Use the link below to access the key findings of the project by Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Ismini Pells

Check out the latest @voicestcd.bsky.social newsletter on digital technologies, St Brigids Day, and new publications by Jane Ohlmeyer (she/her) and the VOICES team 🥳 @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social

Some fascinating sessions at the “world turned upside down” conference at Christ Church, Oxford. Delighted to talk about our VOICES Project @voicestcd.bsky.social

To celebrate the 180th anniversary of his birth, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the installation of our exhibition “Character is Better Than Wealth: The Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt.” You can visit the exhibition as part of The Book of Kells Experience and it will run until the end of June.

Have you visited ‘The Yeats Sisters & Irish Design’ exhibition, inside the newly refurbished Printing House? Recently, Dr Billy Shortall set eyes on this depiction of the building, designed by artist George Atkinson and printed by the Cuala Press in 1919. Did you know... (more below 👀)

We were delighted to have the opportunity to take the MPhil “Lived Experiences of Early Modern Women” class to view different manuscripts in the @tcdlibrary Manuscripts & Archives. Special thank you to Dr. John Gillis and Estelle Gittins for sharing their work and insight into the collection!

We are excited to announce the publication of ‘Digitising Death: Benchmarking Genealogical Data and Recovering Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland’. This article examines how benchmarking digital methods can advance historical research by recovering women’s lives from fragmented archives.

Congratulations Jessie Buckley on her big win! Great to see a focus on 17th century women. Check out this article on Irish women alive during the time of Hamnet 💚 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Fascinating week at Miranda House & Delhi University discussing Ireland, India & Empire & especially the women often so lost from this history. @voicestcd.bsky.social

🚨New Article🚨 VOICES PI @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social has published a fascinating article exploring the complicated and lasting colonial connections between Ireland and Jamaica. Find the article here: theconversation.com/what-irish-p...

Happy international women’s day 💚

Happy International Women’s Day from @voicestcd.bsky.social! Check out latest blog on the technology to recover lives of women from Irish history ☘️ who were hiding in plain sight 🕵️ blog includes demo of tech 🖥️ @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Remarkably, some original census covers survive! A red wax seal is still visible on this return for Clonbeg, sent from Tipperary Town to Henry Baker Sterne, Parliament House, Dublin on 28 April 1766. Ironically, Baker Sterne had died a fortnight previously. virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP... 👀 ALT

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

We've got some very exciting vacancies on our #VirtualTrinityLibrary projects! We're recruiting for a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection AND a Project Photographer for our Medieval, Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts! Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

How do you digitise a medieval manuscript? 📜📷 Our Manuscripts for Medieval Studies project team explores the craft behind digitising the Book of St Albans in the recently published ‘The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris’ edited by James G. Clark. #MedievalManuscripts #MatthewParis

Great to receive a copy of this! A chapter I co-wrote with my lovely manuscripts colleagues! All about how to digitise a 13th C manuscript @tcdlibrary.bsky.social Digitised before my time but I really enjoyed pulling together this chapter! 📜➡️💻🎉 lnkd.in/d5ZAeNrQ

A Mrs Valentine ❤️ who lived to 118 allegedly! NLI GO MS 76 f. 108v

Brigid 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

Really looking forward to the 2026 Lahore Lit fest & to talking about Making Empire & VOICES.

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 #StBrigidsDay @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Brigid Spotlight #3: Brigitt Lee recounts her experience of the losses she suffered during the 1641 Rebellion (now TCD MS 834 f. 162) @tcdlibrary.bsky.social

Brigid Spotlight #2: Bridget Bermingham whose mother died of smallpox on Merchants Quay Dublin 1685 from the @nlireland.bsky.social Funeral Entries @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social

Brigid Spotlight #1: Bridget Arthur in an @nlireland.bsky.social Funeral Entry - she was one of nine children to Barbara Cusack d. 1643 #StBrigidsDay

It’s going to be a great term!

Happy St Bridget’s day 💚

Check 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

Lá Fhéile Bríde is just around the corner. Start your long weekend with this fascinating lecture on St Ethne, St Fidelma & early Irish baptism traditions. 🎧The Annual St Brigit Lecture 2026 with Dr Catherine Swift (MIC Limerick/Loyola Institute, TCD) soundcloud.com/tlrhub/the-a...

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! @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

VOICES team delighted to be back after the holidays and wishing everyone the best for the coming year! @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social