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...

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…

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…

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

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

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 …

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…

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…

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

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 …

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 …

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…

WOMEN’S HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONFERENCE Mary Immaculate College, 29 – 30 May 2026 (TARA BUILDING: ROOMS T117, T313, T314, T315) REGISTRATION DESK GROUND FLOOR TARA BUILDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA...

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The WHAI intends to create an online directory for its members to highlight their wide range of research specialisms and provide contact details that would allow members of the …

In 2022, an article written by Frances Nolan and Bronagh McShane in the Irish Historical Studies celebrated thirty years since the publication of ‘An Agenda for Women’s History in Ireland’ which in…

We are saddened to learn of the death of Dr Dympna McLoughlin, of the History Department, Maynooth University. Dympna’s work in women’s history informed many scholarly studies in areas …

We are delighted to announce that the WHN has teamed up with the Women’s History Association of Ireland to offer a joint annual book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-autho…

WHAI Final Programme Friday 29 May 9.15 Registration Open 9: 45 - 11.30 Panel 1A. Family strategies Chair: TBC Mark Lloyd (University of Limerick), ‘“dodge under the fences of the law and c...