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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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Jane Ohlmeyer,, is a historian and academic, specialising in early modern Irish and British history. She is the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Irish Research Council, which funds frontier research across all disciplines. .. more

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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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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 29

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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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 24

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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Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Jul 1

Heartfelt congratulations to the VRTI team for this remarkable contribution.
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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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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · Jun 30

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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨 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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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · Jun 29

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Jun 10

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · May 28

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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · May 28

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · May 27

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · May 20

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · May 6

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · May 6

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Mar 24

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Mar 20

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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Mar 20

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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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · Mar 19

#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]
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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 19

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.

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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Mar 14

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)

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Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1)

Podcast Episode · Empire · 20/02/2025 · 35m

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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Mar 13

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
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · Mar 11

‘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
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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · Mar 11

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. 🙏🏼

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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · Mar 7

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]

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