The WHAI/MIC best paper at the 2026 conference Award

The Women’s History Association of Ireland in conjunction with Mary Immaculate College EDII were delighted to award Julien Santos de Mello with a book token for best conference paper at our recent …

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Locating Loss: Histories of Infertility in Landscapes and Spaces

Podcasts from Locating Loss: Histories of Infertility in Landscapes and Spaces. This conference took place on 27 May 2026 in University of Limerick. The aim of the Locating Loss project is to explor

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Women’s History Network/Women’s History Association of Ireland Book Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce the joint winners of the WHN/WHAI book prize for 2025: Sarah Crook, Unhappy Mothers: Women, Motherhood, and Social Change in Postwar Britain (Manchester University Pres…

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Women's Grassroots Activism Toolkit 100+

Helping to enhance the lives of women and girls for another 100+ years

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Lorraine Grimes, Single Mothers in twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: pregnancy, migration and institutionalization (London, 2025).

Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes became the focus of global attention in 2014 following the discovery of 796 infant death records, for which no matching burial records could be found in Tuam, Co Gal…

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Investing in Dublin: Tontines, Women, and Financial Life in 19th C Ireland - Royal Irish Academy

These talks will explore how ordinary Dubliners engaged with systems of savings and commercial speculation in the nineteenth century. Speakers: Dr Andrew McDiarmid Adam Kane (PhD candidate at UCD) The...

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The Anna Parnell Travel grant

landowner, and Delia Tudor Stewart Parnell. Michael Davitt’s proposal to establish an Irish Ladies’ Land League led him to propose Anna as its organiser as he had previously worked alongside Anna P…

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Rita McCarthy: Forgotten Lives – The Story of the County Clare Mother and Baby Home Known as the County Nursery, 1922–1932

Rita McCarthy’s Forgotten Lives – The Story of the County Clare Mother and Baby Home Known as the County Nursery, 1922–1932 is an important and deeply moving contribution to the history of County C…

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The story of the revolutionary 1929 Tipperary school for women

Here's what happened when a group of intrepid women packed their bags, gathered hay for bedding and headed up Slievenamon in 1929

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Clodagh Finn: The Irish flappers who gave bishops sleepless nights by embracing jazz and fashion

New research reveals how Irish women embraced jazz, fashion and dance despite bishops’ warnings about the supposed dangers of modernity

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Eva Gore-Booth: Centenary Celebration of a Radical, Rebel and Reformer, 24 & 25 July, Lissadell House, Sligo

Co-organised with the Irish Labour History Society, the weekend event was a great success with 87 registered attendees and beautiful opening paper given by Sabina Higgins. RTÉ featured a …

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Market women in Dublin: A snippet of my PhD research (Dr Susan Curley Meyer’s)

Documentary textual sources that signify the presence of market women and their role in Dublin’s secondary economies are scant, yet a wide range of visual media confirms their presence and place in…

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Susan Maire Martin: Dublin’s women street traders, 1882 – 1932: ‘Civil evil’ and civil disobedience (Four Court Press, 2025)

As Susan Marie Martin says, Molly Malone, the cockles and mussels street trader, renderedin a bronze sculpture, was unveiled to celebrate Dublin’s millennium, in 1988. It makes thecity sound like a…

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Dublin council to commission new monument honouring women of Ireland’s revolution

Move part of broader effort to address historical underrepresentation of women in public spaces

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Antonia Hart: The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922: Business as Usual, (Liverpool University Press, 2025)

The fascinating world of women’s work as business owners is illuminated in Antonia Hart’s excellent book The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922 which is the twenty-fourth book published in …

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Antonia Hart: The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922: Business as Usual, (Liverpool University Press, 2025)

The fascinating world of women’s work as business owners is illuminated in Antonia Hart’s excellent book The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922 which is the twenty-fourth book published in …

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EVA GORE-BOOTH CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF A RADICAL , REBEL AND REFORMER

FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION DETAILS CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW Eva Gore-Booth: Centenary Celebration of a Radical, Rebel and Reformer – Irish Labour History Society 2026…

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Eva Gore-Booth: Centenary Celebration of a Radical, Rebel and Reformer - Irish Labour History Society

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