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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND
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ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Dec 13
Welcome to the VOICES project Bluesky account. VOICES is a 5 year ERC Advanced Grant Project based at Trinity College Dublin led by Jane Ohlmeyer.

We harness #digital technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland

For more check out our website: voicesproject.ie
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🚨New VOICES blog!! Sophie Erschen reflects on her summer internship and her work researching women's wills. Read more at our website:

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Blog 9: My Summer of Wills - VOICES
By Sophie Erschen I first learnt of the VOICES project when Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, our Principal Investigator, held a guest lecture at my home university, the University of Vienna, in March 2025. I ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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:
Viragos and Matrons: The lived experiences of Women in seventeenth-century Dublin - VOICES
October the 7th saw the launch of the publication arising from Professor Jane Ohlmeyer’s delivery of the 2024, 27th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture entitled ‘The lived experiences of ...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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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
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Dr Smith at Spandau Born in 1927, Trinity graduate Dr Hillas Smith, MB (1951), worked at London’s Royal Free and Northwick Park hospitals. During 1950s nat
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October 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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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.
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July 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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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
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July 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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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
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A great keynote by @bamcshane.bsky.social to begin the @catholicrs.bsky.social conference. Loads of food for thought which clearly came through with the well-engaged with Q&A afterwards
August 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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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
July 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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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. ☀️🤩☀️
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July 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Heartfelt congratulations to the VRTI team for this remarkable contribution.
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · Jun 30
Today is the 103rd anniversary of the explosion and fire which destroyed the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War. To mark the date, we are releasing over 175,000 historical documents on our site. Read more here:

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July 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🚨 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.

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Blog 8: Signed with her mark: Women’s wills in local history journals - VOICES
By Ella Mae Cromie In 1733, Catherine Deane left £2 to ‘the roman poor of the parish’ and £6 to her parish priests in her will (1). Fifty-five years before writing her final bequest, Catherine had bee...
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June 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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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
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June 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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.
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Image attached of writer and producer Bríona Nic Dhiarmada with series’ historical consultant and associate producer Jane Ohlmeyer and the wider production team
June 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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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.
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Blog 7: From Handwritten Funeral Entries to Machine-Readable Texts – An internship opportunity using Transkribus to perform HTR - VOICES
By Robin Dresel With increasing digitisation, more content becomes available to be processed through computational means. Regardless of how expansive the information on the internet is, a large amount...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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.

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‘We Irish were never homogeneous. Always hybrids, always mongrels’ - VOICES
New RTÉ TV series tells the story of the island over thousands of years in a way that both informs and challenges Mark Hennessy Courtesy of the Irish Times, Sat May 31 2025 – 17:57 From That Small Isl...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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

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DARIAH-IE Appoints New Committee to Support National Coordinator in Revitalising Irish Digital Arts & Humanities Research Infrastructure - VOICES
DARIAH-IE, the Ireland node of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, proudly announces the appointment of a new national committee to guide the work of the Nati...
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May 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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See our report on a recent workshop exploring Generative AI and Historical Research, convened by VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane:

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At the Precipice of Possibility: Reflections on the Generative AI and Historical Research Workshop - VOICES
By Dr Bronagh Ann McShane On 7 May 2025, more than fifty individuals gathered at Trinity College Dublin for the workshop, ‘Generative AI and Historical Research’. Convened as part of the ERC-funded VO...
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May 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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.

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Blog 6: Building the VOICES Knowledge Graph of Early-Modern Irish Women - VOICES
A Knowledge Graph (KG) is a way of representing information as a network of entities, such as people, places, events, and concepts, and the relationships between them. Rather than storing data in flat...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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:

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Visit to the University of Sheffield - VOICES
By Dr Daniel Patterson In March 2025, VOICES PI Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Research Fellow Dr Daniel Patterson visitedThe University of Sheffield to attend a workshop on Women and the courts: New wor...
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May 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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!

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May 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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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:

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Blog 5: Giving Voice to the Past: How AI Helps Us Listen - VOICES
NLP on VOICES project
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April 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Hear @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social speak about the VOICES project to Marie Stamp on the the Section 900: Histories from Trinity College podcast.

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Podcast: Jane Ohlmeyer on Section 900: Histories from Trinity College - VOICES
Hear Professor Jane Ohlmeyer speak about the VOICES project to Marie Stamp on the the Section 900: Histories from Trinity College podcast. 1. Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sec...
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March 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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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.
March 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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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;

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Irish Studies in a Changing Europe Symposium - VOICES
Dr Bronagh Ann McShane, Research Fellow on the VOICES team, recently travelled to  Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany, to present at the ‘Irish Studies in a Changing Europe’ symposium....
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March 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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...

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Jaipur Literary Festival - VOICES
By Professor Jane Ohlmeyer Speaking at the 2025 Jaipur Literary Festival in India was a real treat.  It is the largest literary festival in India and attracts huge crowds from across the globe.  In a ...
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March 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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#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 mcshaneb@tcd.ie
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March 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM