📢 We are seeking papers for our online conference! We welcome proposals from researchers, students, independent scholars, and community historians exploring women’s and gender history in Scotland/ Scottish context 📝 Abstracts due 1 July 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c... Please share!

the Women’s History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has teamed up with the Women’s History Network to offer a joint annual book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

We had such a wonderful time at the @nlireland.bsky.social 📚 We presented our VOICES findings from the Funeral Entries & we got to see the original manuscripts. Such a great day ✨ Many thanks to Audrey, Crónán and colleagues for hosting us!

What was the real role of Women in Revolution over the centuries? 📢 Join us online: Thurs 4 June 7:00 pm for Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre (to consider actual, not allegorical, women.) Free, all welcome, booking required.👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

What does revolution look like when you put women's role at the centre? Join us online on Thursday 4 June, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm for Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073... Attendance is free, all are welcome. (Shared posts are welcome too! 😊)

What is the revolutionary view from this vantage point? Join us online for Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre Thursday 4 June 2026 7:00-8:15PM Attendance is free. All are welcome 👇👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073... 📷 Lotherton Hall, W. Yorkshire. Creative Commons

This looks like a great event on ‘Women in Revolution’ with @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social, Dr Catriona Kennedy, and @earner.bsky.social. Happening 4th June 🗓️ Register here 👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin’s gift to Pope Leo XIV included Book of Kells facsimile reproductions from: Gospel of Matthew (22:39, folio 98r) “secundum autem simile est huic diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum” “And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”

Don’t forget to register for ‘Women in Revolution’. A discussion on the revolutionary lives of women with @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social, Dr Catriona Kennedy, and @earner.bsky.social. See the rest of the thread for talk titles. Registration link👇(1/3) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

🚨 New Blog Alert 🚨 Check out the latest blog by VOICES interns Darcy Rougeaux and Amelia Seepersaud! As part of their internship, they engaged with controlled vocabularies, coding, social media and public engagement. A busy spring! 🌱 Thank you Darcy & Amelia 🤗 voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...

Congratulations Dr Alex Randles for winning ‘Best In-Use Paper’ at the European Semantic Web Conference! Recognising the impact of the Knowledge Graph Explorer 🧭 @adaptcentre.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

Happening today at 11am in the @tlrhub.bsky.social. Come and join us! @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @drdpatterson.bsky.social @clairemcnulty.bsky.social @nearfm.ie

Webinar! Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre 7:00-8:15, Thursday 4 June 7:00-7:45 Talks: Prof Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD), Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) 7:45-8:00 Discussion chaired by Dr Joel Herman 8:00-8:15 Q&A events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

Check out our latest article on ‘Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in Women’s History: The VOICES Project (Ireland)’! By Lucy McKenna @bamcshane.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social Declan O’Sullivan @drdpatterson.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social voicesproject.ie/impact/digit...

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Job alert! 📢The Library of Trinity College Dublin is seeking an experienced #Archivist to work on the archive of the war correspondent and author Robert Fisk. Search "Project Archivist" on lnkd.in/epe82VKC to apply. Closing date 12:00, 27th May 2026.

Happening today at 3pm - “Women, War, and Sexual Violence in Early Modern Ireland” by Prof @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social. More details on how to join here: mkgd.hypotheses.org

“Edinburgh’s Unruly Women” is coming out in paperback this summer 😎 You can preorder here: www.routledge.com/Edinburghs-U... for hundreds of case studies of individual women who navigated their local church courts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩵📜 @routledgebooks.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @voicestcd.bsky.social

Join @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social on Wednesday 20th May as part of Dublin’s Hidden Histories. Learn about Catherine Strong, Dung Queen of Dublin, responsible for running sanitation teams to clear the streets of human & animal waste! Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/catherine-...

Be sure to tune in on Monday 11 May 2026 for “Women, War and Sexual Violence in Early Modern Ireland” by Prof @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social. One of a number of upcoming talks so stay tuned 🙏 @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @clairemcnulty.bsky.social @drdpatterson.bsky.social

This is a really detailed Census for 1650s Dublin! Definitely worth checking out 💚 #TheStoryofUs

Wonderful blog from the @notredame.bsky.social Medieval Institute on our Deeds of the Guild of Saint Anne collaboration with @rialibrary.bsky.social + @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social 😀 👉 www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g... medieval.nd.edu/news-events/... @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social

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 💚