VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer recently delivered the Royal Historical Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', which looked at the project's methodologies, the rewards and challenges of using AI, and some early findings. Read more here:

It's been a busy few weeks for the VOICES team! On 17th November, Dr Daniel Patterson (@drdpatterson.bsky.social) delivered a paper 'Women waging law: The Chancery Pleadings revisited' at the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar. @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social

Last week, VOICES PI Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical Research entitled: 'Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work'. Find out more at the link below: @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:

Our great thanks to Jane Ohlmeyer who gave the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture on Friday evening. Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians

🚨New VOICES blog!! Sophie Erschen reflects on her summer internship and her work researching women's wills. Read more at our website: @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social

Last Tuesday marked the launch of VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer's publication arising from the 27th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture entitled 'Viragos and Matrons: The lived experiences of women in seventeenth-century Dublin', at Dublin City Library and Archive. Read more below:

Great to see "From that Small Island" featured on page 64/65 of Trinity Today @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

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. @thejamestownfdn.bsky.social @voicestcd.bsky.social

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 @voicestcd.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure to deliver the opening keynote address at the @catholicrs.bsky.social conference last month. I spoke on the subject of Catholic women & the probate courts in #earlymodern Ireland, part of my ongoing research for the @erc.europa.eu funded project @voicestcd.bsky.social

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. ☀️🤩☀️ @voicestcd.bsky.social @galwayfilm.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Heartfelt congratulations to the VRTI team for this remarkable contribution. @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

🚨 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. @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

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 @voicestcd.bsky.social

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. @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @rte.ie

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. @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social

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. @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @rte.ie

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 @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @dariahie.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

See our report on a recent workshop exploring Generative AI and Historical Research, convened by VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane: @bamcshane.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social

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

VOICES' own Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Dr Daniel Patterson recently spoke at a terrific workshop on women's history and court records at the University of Sheffield. See more in our latest blog: @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @adaptcentre.bsky.social

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! @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Check out the latest VOICES blog! Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland: @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tcddublin.bsky.social

Hear @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social speak about the VOICES project to Marie Stamp on the the Section 900: Histories from Trinity College podcast. voicesproject.ie/impact/podca... @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Really enjoyed speaking to students at Vienna University about the 1641 Depositions & our @erc.europa.eu @voicestcd.bsky.social project. Also great to see the newly published anthology ‘Voices from the Colonised’. Delighted to contribute an essay on Colonial Ireland. Congrats to the editors.

In February, Research Fellow @bamcshane.bsky.social was in Germany to participate in a symposium on ‘Irish Studies in a Changing Europe’. She showcased how the project is using #AI to uncover women’s experiences in #earlymodern Ireland Read her report here; voicesproject.ie/impact/irish...

The VOICES team have been busy of late: in January VOICES PI @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social travelled to India to participate in the Jaipur Literary Festival - read all about it here; voicesproject.ie/impact/jaipu... @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

#GenAI & Historical Research; how do we contend with the challenges? Are there opportunities? Join us for an in person workshop @tlrhub.bsky.social on 7 May. For booking DM/email me [email protected] @voicestcd.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @drdpatterson.bsky.social

Hear @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social on ‘Ireland and Empire’ series on the EMPIRE Podcast with @anitaanand.bsky.social & @willdalrymple.bsky.social (800,000+ listeners & #1 in Irish Apple Podcasts) @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Meet the VOICES team: Dr Diego Rincon-Yanez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in NeuroSymbolic #AI In VOICES, Diego applies Semantic Web Technologies and Machine Learning techniques to uncover the history of women in early modern Ireland @adaptcentre.bsky.social voicesproject.ie/team-member/...

‘Do recent reforms signify a genuine commitment to inclusivity or are they merely symbolic gestures aimed at appeasing critics?’, my Op Ed in Sunday’s Rite&Reason column @irishtimes.com #catholichistory #nuntastic #popefrancis @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

We had a fantastic day in Sheffield at a workshop on early modern courts. Really enjoyed all the papers & talking about our ERC VOICES project. 🙏🏼 @voicestcd.bsky.social @charmianmansell.bsky.social @mabelwinter.bsky.social @obscuredrama.bsky.social @bamcshane.bsky.social

Our Research Fellow Daniel Patterson is now on Bluesky follow him @drdpatterson.bsky.social

Excited to announce this lunchtime a workshop on #GenAI & Historical Research, in person @tlrhub.bsky.social on 7 May. For more details & booking contact me: [email protected] @voicestcd.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @tcdeconomics.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ria.ie

International Women's Day is a reminder of The Untold Stories of Ireland’s Forgotten Women now uncovered in Chancery Records: voicesproject.ie/impact/fight... @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer has joined Bluesky. Follow her @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social #skystorians

‘Charting a path forward for Irish Women’s History in the Era of AI’, my contribution to ‘Irish Studies in a Changing Europe’ symposium @ @uni-saarland.de #womenshist #AI @voicestcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

For the day that’s in it: in 1707 Mary De St Julien Adlecron, a French Huguenot & Widow living in Dublin, bequeathed her ‘little tankard of Hearts‘ to her grandniece, Emily 💕💓❣️#galentines #stvalentinesday #earlymodern @voicestcd.bsky.social

Check out the latest VOICES blog by Research Fellow, Dr Madina Kurmangaliyeva: ‘Quantitative Analysis and Violence in Historical Materials: The 1641 Depositions’ voicesproject.ie/impact/quant... #earlymodern @tlrhub.bsky.social

‘St. Brigid’s Day: Courageous Women’, a new article by VOICES PI, Prof Jane Ohlmeyer. @tlrhub.bsky.social #womeninhistory #stbrigid #earlymodern voicesproject.ie/impact/st-br...

‘As we imagine the Irish landscape of the past, this book helps us to include in our imagining the women our records so often leave out’ Conor McDonough OP reviews Brides of Christ: Women & Monasticism in Medieval & #Earlymodern Ireland ✍️ #womeninhistory www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/b...

Looking forward to collaborating with Prof. Declan O’Sullivan of @adaptcentre.bsky.social to discuss AI’s utility for women’s history as part of my work for @voicestcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social #womeninhistory #earlymodern #AI

Next up in the meet the VOICES research team: Daniel Patterson, who is using the largely untapped records of the Irish Court of Chancery now held at the National Archives of Ireland to explore women's lives in the 16th&17th century. Read Daniel's blog post here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...

Meet our VOICES Team! First up, Research Fellow in History, Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social who is using wills to retrieve the voices of women in #earlymodern Ireland. Read her recent blog here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...

Happy New Year to all our Blue Sky Followers. We have some exciting plans for 2025. Visit our website, where you can also sign up for project updates and find our more about the project team: voicesproject.ie #womenshistory #VOICES #earlymodern

Hello to our new followers! Check out the latest VOICES blog posts by Research Fellows Daniel Patterson & @bamcshane.bsky.social Daniel explores 17thC Irish Chancery Pleadings voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-... Bronagh discusses #earlymodern wills: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-... #womenshistory

What is the value of Gen #AI for historical research? What are the risks? And how do we harness the potential of #GenAI in ways that do not undermine the historian’s quest for empirical knowledge? I discuss in the latest @voicestcd.bsky.social newsletter. Sign up here voicesproject.ie/contact/

First instalment of the VOICES newsletter is now out. To sign up & read about what the team has been up to during the project's first year, see here: voicesproject.ie/contact/ #earlymodern #AI #Knowledgegraph #womenshistory