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Bronagh Ann McShane

@bamcshane.bsky.social
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women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️

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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Last night I was incredibly saddened to hear about the loss of @bridmcgrath.bsky.social . A formidable scholar with a huge passion for early modern history. But more importantly, a kind and generous person who will be sorely missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing her. 1/2
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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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Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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
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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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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
At a mass ahead of the #papalconclave Giovanni Battista Re, College of Cardinals Dean, called for a pope that can ‘awaken the consciences of all & the moral & spiritual energies in today's society, characterized by great technological progress but which tends to forget God’ @ewtnvatican.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 07/05/2025
As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are beginning the secretive process known as a conclave.
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The conclave to choose a new pope is beginning. Here's what you need to know
As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are beginning the secretive process known as a conclave.
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Big day tomorrow, not only start of papal #conclave, but also my workshop on #GenerativeAI & Historical Research. Looking forward to some thought provoking discussions on what this technology means for the discipline of History @tlrhub.bsky.social @discussai.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social
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Near FM @nearfm.ie · 06/05/2025
On Northside Today from 11am Emma speaks to @bamcshane.bsky.social about women in the Catholic Church as the Papal Conclave prepares to convene tomorrow.
Dr Bronagh Ann McShane sitting in a car.
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 28/04/2025
"If we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make a culture of encounter: we need this so much. We must meet one another doing good (2013)." #PopeFrancis #SantoSubito
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2025
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/04/2025
Race to succeed Pope Francis begins with his funeral, as informal alliances of cardinals emerge
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Race to succeed Pope Francis begins with his funeral, as informal alliances of cardinals emerge
On one side stand the conservatives. On the other are the reformers. And in the centre are those who want an end to the polarisation
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Who will be the next Pope? My op-ed in today’s @irishtimes.com - ’Race to succeed Francis begins with his funeral’ (subscriber content) #popefrancis #papalfuneral #conclave #catholichurch www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
@bamcshane.bsky.social great piece today! Race to succeed Pope Francis begins with his funeral, as informal alliances of cardinals emerge www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Bronagh Ann McShane: Race to succeed Pope Francis begins with his funeral, as informal alliances of cardinals emerge
On one side stand the conservatives. On the other are the reformers. And in the centre are those who want an end to the polarisation
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Not long to go until #GenerativeAI & Historical Research Workshop @tlrhub.bsky.social - really looking forward to this! Fantastic line up 👇 @voicestcd.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 60% OFF SALE NOW ON! Save on most hardbacks published before July 2024 in our Spring sale! Use BB600 at the checkout to claim your discount. Browse and view the full list of included books > buff.ly/elebpMY #BookSale #History #Music #Literature
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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
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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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Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Pope Francis appointed more women to leadership roles in the Vatican than any pope before him." @bamcshane.bsky.social (Research Fellow, @voicestcd.bsky.social, @historytcd.bsky.social) explores the legacy of #PopeFrancis in 'The Conversation'. Read now: theconversation.com/pope-francis...
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Pope Francis promoted women to unprecedented heights of power in the church
Women now hold several high-level administrative roles in the Catholic church but not everyone is on board.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
1448 pp here of Luke Wadding’s Roman dossier on Jansenism & anti-Jansenism from 1652/1653. And this was just volume 3…
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Pope Francis leaves a complex legacy but his moves to promote women in leadership within the Vatican marked a real shift. I explore what his legacy means in light of the Church’s long history of patriarchy; theconversation.com/pope-francis... #PopeFrancis #CatholicChurch #Religion #patriarchy
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis promoted women to unprecedented heights of power in the church @theconversation.com #popefrancis #womeninleadership #catholicism #nuntastic theconversation.com/pope-francis...
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Pope Francis promoted women to unprecedented heights of power in the church
Women now hold several high-level administrative roles in the Catholic church but not everyone is on board.
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President of Ireland @president.ie · 21/04/2025
Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Pope Francis president.ie/en/media-lib...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21/04/2025
Nuns arrives to pray at St. Peter's Square following the death of Pope Francis in the Vatican on Monday. Pope Francis died at age 88 a day after making an appearance at Saint Peter's Square on Easter Sunday. 📷 Alberto Pizzoli / AFP nbcnews.to/3Gd04KK
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
RIP #PopeFrancis ✝️ sharing my @irishtimes.com article on Francis and women in the Church. ‘Vision of Pope Francis has signalled shift in how Vatican views women in leadership’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A major conference is being held in Rome this May to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Franciscan house, Saint Isidore's College. Registration Deadline: 30 April 2025. For full details: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/... #Catholichist #rome #irishabroad
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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The CFP for the 2025 Tudor & Stuart Ireland conference is now open. TSIXIII will take place at University College Dublin on 21-22 August, so please join us. All details are in the link, but get please get in touch if you have any questions. tudorstuartireland.com
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Tudor and Stuart Ireland
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Will of John Langly, Bandon, Co Cork, 1674: I do leave all my household goods, and farm...to my son, commonly called 'Stubborn Jack'...provided he marries a Protestant woman, but not Grace Kenny or Alice Kenny, who called me 'Oliver's whelp.' #grudge (Bennett, The History of Bandon)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Artist's Sister in the Garb of a Nun, 1551, Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1535–1625) (Southampton City Art Gallery) I love these - if you can't find a nun sitter, create one. Rubens dressed his son as a #Capuchin
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Planting fruit trees in Ireland, 1653 (Egmont Mss).
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Frances Nolan @francesmnolan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Launching this beauty tonight! @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social #history #irishhistory #research
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
2 April, feast day of St Bronagh, 6th century holy woman, disciple of St Patrick and abbess of #Kilbroney, Co Down. The bell of St Bronagh still hangs in the local church of #Rostrevor #StBronagh #IrishSaints #FeastDay #nuntastic #catholichistory
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
'Coghill never married although he was reputedly close to marrying...Allegedly he was [jilted] because of a judgement he made in the prerogative court...that a husband could lawfully beat his wife, if it was done with a switch such as that which Coghill was then holding' www.dib.ie/biography/co...
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
An interesting post on the teaching of (women’s) history in schools in England. 🗃️#WomensHistoryMonth
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’m talking about nuns again! A pleasure to discuss my work on 16th & 17thC women religious in with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social recently. Listen here talkingtudors.podbean.com #nuntastic #catholichist #earlymodern #womeninhistory #tudorhistory
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Talking Tudors | Natalie Grueninger
A podcast for lovers of Tudor history.
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Natalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New episode! It was enlightening to speak with @bamcshane.bsky.social about the lives and experiences of Irish women religious and the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries. A must-listen episode for anyone interested in early modern women. Tune in! talkingtudors.podbean.com
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Crown Imperial fritillary attended by a court of bright tulips, Merrion Square, Dublin
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Deadline for #cfp for the 67th annual Catholic Records Society conference taking place in Hinsley Hall, Leeds @catholicrs.bsky.social is fast approaching (31 March) For details on submitting a proposal see www.crs.org.uk/conferences #catholichist #histmonast #skystorians #catholicism #reformazing
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Conference | CRS
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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
28 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...
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The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries
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Martin O'Donoghue @martinodonoghue.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Looking forward to this year's @iaphistorians.bsky.social Annual Lecture @nlireland.bsky.social Tuesday 15 April at 6.30pm (after the AGM) - Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social - 'Afterlives of Revolutionary Violence' www.nli.ie/exhibitions-... www.eventbrite.ie/e/afterlives...
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Afterlives of Revolutionary Violence
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
One of my favourite signs in Dublin. St Andrew’s Westland Row.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The multilingual early modern city!
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 23/03/2025
Our third Starter Pack for historians lists institutes and research centres based in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm This now includes over 90 centres with BlueSky accounts. We also welcome recommendations for additions to this pack. #skystorians
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Picture embroidered by Martha Hollis, England, 1660. Aged 10. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A day for the bucket & spade #galway
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
All welcome on Tuesday 8 April at 6pm in the People's Museum, to the Limerick CEMS Máire Ní Chrualaoich lecture by Prof Tríona Ní Shíocháin on 'From Thomond to Muskerry: An Exploration of Munster Women’s Song-making and Poetic Practices from the 17th to the 19th Century'.
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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...
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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 · 20/03/2025
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
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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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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Dublin friends and colleagues, I'm coming to Trinity next Monday 24th March to give the @historytcd.bsky.social Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture. All welcome, starts at 4pm in @tlrhub.bsky.social. Really looking forward to bringing this new research back to the alma mater!
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Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture - A City in Translation: Multilingual Lives in Early Modern London
A seminar by Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series.
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