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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
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Extraordinary lives of ordinary men, women and children revealed by the Civil War Petitions Project - The World Turned Upside Down
Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Ismini Pells reveal some of the key findings from this study which opens a window on the impact of the British Civil Wars
https://www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/what-stories-have-been-revealed-of-the-ordinary-men-women-and-children-by-the-civil-war-petitions-project/
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Check out the latest
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newsletter on digital technologies, St Brigids Day, and new publications by Jane Ohlmeyer (she/her) and the VOICES team 🥳
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Some fascinating sessions at the “world turned upside down” conference at Christ Church, Oxford. Delighted to talk about our VOICES Project
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The Library of Trinity College Dublin
10 days ago
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.
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The Library of Trinity College Dublin
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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 👀)
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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!
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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.
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Digitising Death: Benchmarking Genealogical Data and Recovering Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland | Journal of Open Humanities Data
https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.491
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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 💚
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Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet
Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41800460.html
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Celebrating Women’s Voices: Exploring the VOICES Project Knowledge Graph - VOICES
By Lucy McKenna and Jane Ohlmeyer Much of the historical data for VOICES – our ‘digital windfall’ – is unstructured and exists in ‘digital silos’ or what one of the founders of the WWW described as a ...
https://voicesproject.ie/impact/celebrating-womens-voices-exploring-the-voices-project-knowledge-graph/
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Fascinating week at Miranda House & Delhi University discussing Ireland, India & Empire & especially the women often so lost from this history.
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🚨New Article🚨 VOICES PI
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has published a fascinating article exploring the complicated and lasting colonial connections between Ireland and Jamaica. Find the article here:
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What Irish politician Thomas Gould’s accent going viral in Jamaica reveals about colonial history
In the late 1600s, hundreds of Irish people were transported to Jamaica as labourers.
https://theconversation.com/what-irish-politician-thomas-goulds-accent-going-viral-in-jamaica-reveals-about-colonial-history-277452?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
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Happy international women’s day 💚
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Happy International Women’s Day from
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! 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 🖥️
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
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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.
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A great insight into the project on recovering VOICES of women - from Ireland’s “dung queen” to the alleged 118 yr old Mrs Valentine 💌
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The Library of Trinity College Dublin
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We've got some very exciting vacancies on our
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Digitised before my time but I really enjoyed pulling together this chapter! 📜➡️💻🎉
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A Mrs Valentine ❤️ who lived to 118 allegedly! NLI GO MS 76 f. 108v
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Brigid Spotlight #5 (& final): Brigitt Doyne accused of stealing 100 English sheep during the 1641 Rebellion 🐑
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#StBrigidsDay
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Really looking forward to the 2026 Lahore Lit fest & to talking about Making Empire & VOICES.
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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
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Brigid Spotlight #3: Brigitt Lee recounts her experience of the losses she suffered during the 1641 Rebellion (now TCD MS 834 f. 162)
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Brigid Spotlight #2: Bridget Bermingham whose mother died of smallpox on Merchants Quay Dublin 1685 from the
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Funeral Entries
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Brigid Spotlight #1: Bridget Arthur in an
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Funeral Entry - she was one of nine children to Barbara Cusack d. 1643
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It’s going to be a great term!
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Happy St Bridget’s day 💚
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Check out my 1st blog for
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- the Many Brigids of Early Modern Ireland, from pregnant widows to sheep stealing rebels 🇮🇪🐑🌿✨
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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)
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The Annual St Brigit Lecture 2026 - St Ethne, St Fidelma and earliest Irish baptism
Recorded January 28th, 2026. A lecture by Dr Catherine Swift (MIC Limerick/ Loyola Institute, TCD) organised by the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroom
https://soundcloud.com/tlrhub/the-annual-st-brigit-lecture-2026
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND
2 months ago
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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3 months ago
VOICES team delighted to be back after the holidays and wishing everyone the best for the coming year!
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