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Exhibition: 50 Years of Pioneering Women at the University of Limerick: Past and Present
WHAI Conference 2022
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Besieged bodies Gendered violence, sexualities and motherhood Women’s History Association of Ireland Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 15–16 May 2020 CFP
Cancellation: Women’s History Association of Ireland Annual Conference, 15–16 May 2020
WHAI 2019 Conference
WHAI Annual Conference 2018: Podcasts and Photo Gallery
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Book Launch: Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland
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WHAI Past Events
Barriers Removed? The 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in Context, 12th November 2016
Thesis-in-Three and Poster Display 2021
Thesis-in-three symposium 2018
Thesis-in-three symposium: 25 October 2016
WHAI Christmas Event 2021
WHAI Spring Seminar 2018: New Directions in Early Modern Irish Women’s History
WHAI Winter Seminar 2016: A conversation with Sinéad McCoole
2015 Autumn Seminar – 28th November 2015, 3-5pm
Cumann na mBan 100
Annual Christmas Event 2020
Exhibition: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Public Life, 1918-2018
PGR/ECR Day 2021
2021 PGR Day Prize Winners
PGR/ECR Day Programme
Poster Display
WHAI Christmas Gathering 2022
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Book Reviews
2023 Book Reviews
Review of House and Home in Georgian Ireland ed. Conor Lucey
Review of Sisters ed. Siobhán Fitzpatrick and Mary O’Dowd
2022 Book Reviews
Review of Patrick McDonagh’s Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93
Review of Margarita Cappock (ed.) Sarah Cecilia Harrison: Artist, Campaigner, and City Councillor by Cathryn McWilliams
Review of Sophie Cooper’s Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c. 1830-1922 by Martin Walsh
Review of Síobhra Aiken’s Spiritual Wounds by Lorraine Grimes
Review of Margaret Ward’s Unmanageable Revolutionaries by Julie Brosnan
2021 Book Reviews
Review of Joyce Padbury’s Mary Hayden: Irish historian and feminist by Anna Devlin
Review of Bernadette Whelan’s De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American diplomacy in times of crisis, 1932-39 by Ann Marie O’Brien
Review of Kenneth Shonk’s Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926-1938 by Dr Tim Ellis-Dale
Review of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (ed.) Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020 by Michelle Dunne
Review of Mary Hatfield (ed.) Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Conor Heffernan
Review of Richard Doherty’s Irish Men and Women in the Second World War by Amy Heath-Carpentier
Review of Oona Frawley (ed.) Women and the Decade of Commemorations by Jennifer Redmond
Review of Laura Kelly’s Irish Medical Education and Student Culture c.1850-1950 by Berni Dwan
Review of Liam Cullinane’s Working in Cork by Deirdre Foley
Review of Arlene Leis and Kacie L. Wills (eds.), Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Kristina Decker
Review of Mary McAuliffe’s Margaret Skinnider by Elaine Callinan
Review of Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley and Muireann O’Cinneide (eds), Literacy, language, and reading in nineteenth-century Ireland by Ciarán McCabe
Review of Jackie Uí Chionna’s An Oral History of University College Galway, 1930-1980 by Adrian Grant
Review of Sonja Tiernan’s The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: a Social Revolution Begins by Laura Kelly
2020 Book Reviews
Review of Don O’Leary’s Biomedical Controversies in Catholic Ireland by Olivia Dee
Review of Elaine Farrell’s Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland: Life in the nineteenth-century convict prison by Judy Bolger
Review of Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgeway (eds.), Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House by Emma Lyons
Review of Maria Luddy and Mary O’Dowd’s Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925 by Michelle Dunne
Review of Lindsey Earner-Byrne’s Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland 1920–1940 by Lisa Godson
Review of Fionnuala Walsh’s Irish Women and the Great War by Martin Walsh
Review of Anne Marie O’Brien’s The Ideal Diplomat? Women and Irish Foreign Affairs, 1946-90 by Ciara Meehan
Review of Erika Hanna’s Snapshot Stories: Visuality, Photography, and the Social History of Ireland, 1922 – 2000 by Aimée Walsh
Review of Mary Hatfield’s Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender by Cara Delay
Review of Jennifer Redmond and Elaine Farrell (eds.), Irish Women in the First World War Era: Irish Women’s Lives, 1914 – 1918 by Leona Armstrong
Review of John Gibney (ed), Gender and Sexuality in Ireland by Alice Mulhearn Williams
Review of Diane Urquhart’s Irish Divorce: A History by Jean Mary Walker
Review of Louise Ryan & Margaret Ward, Irish Women & Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags by Pamela McKane
Review of Olivia Dee, The Anti-Abortion Campaign in England, 1966-1989 by Abigail Fletcher
Review of Mary Mulvihill, Ingenious Ireland by Angela Byrne
Review of Margaret M. Scull’s The Catholic Church and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998 by Victoria Anne Pearson
Review of Clarissa Campbell Orr’s Mrs Delany: A Life by Kristina Katherine Decker
Review of Cara Delay, Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism by Bridget Harrison
2019 Book Reviews
Review of Maryann Gialanella Valiulis’s The Making of Inequality by Aisling Shalvey
Review of Begging, Charity, and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland
Review of Louise Ryan, Winning the vote for women
Review of Mark Loughrey’s A Century of Service: A History of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
Review of The Irish in Australia
Review of The Irish Abortion Journey
Review of Ida Milne’s Stacking the Coffins by Maeve Casserly
2018 Book Reviews
Review of Valerie Pakenham, Maria Edgeworth’s Letters from Ireland
Review of Tara M. McCarthy’s Respectability & Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880-1920
Review of Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee, Irish women’s writing, 1878-1922
Review of Ita Beausang and Séamas de Barra, Ina Boyle: 1889–1967
Review of Helen McGonagle, A Room of Their Own
Review of Teresa and Mary Louise O’Donnell, Sisters of the Revolutionaries
Review of Terence Dooley, Maeve O’Riordan and Christopher Ridgway, Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain
Review of Margaret Ward’s Hannah Sheehy Skeffington by Mary Carolan
2017 Book Reviews
Review of Lindie Naughton, Markievicz: A Most Outrageous Rebel, by Claire Guerin
Review of Adrian Frazier, The Adulterous Muse, by Dr Margaret Ward
2016 Book Reviews
Review of Christina S. Brophy and Cara Delay (eds.) Women, Reform and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950, by Amy Heath-Carpentier
Review of Niamh O’Sullivan, In the Lion’s Den: Daniel MacDonald, Ireland and Empire, by Aoife O’Leary McNiece
Review of Paul Huddie, The Crimean War and Irish Society, by Martin Walsh
Review of Angus Mitchell, One Bold Deed of Open Treason by Jennifer Redmond
Review of Beulah Bewley and Susan Bewley (Ed.), My life as a woman and doctor, by Laura Kelly, University of Strathclyde
Review of Easter Widows: Seven Irish Women Who Lived in the Shadow of the 1916 Rising, by Amy Heath-Carpentier
Review of Nicola Gordon Bowe, Wilhelmina Geddes, Life and Work by Emma O’Toole, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Review of Wilde’s women: how Oscar Wilde was shaped by the women he knew, by Rosemary Raughter
Review of Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745: Imitation and Innovation, by Dr. Clare O’Halloran, UCC.
Review of Criminal Irish drunkards: the inebriate reformatory system 1900-1920 by Dr Fionnuala Walsh, National Library of Ireland
2015 Book Reviews
Review of Children, Childhood and Irish Society: 1500 to the Present by Maria Luddy and James M. Smith (Eds.) by Dr. Conor Reidy, University of Limerick
Review of Fergus Kelly (ed.) Marriage Disputes. A Fragmentary Old Irish Law-Text, Dublin, by Dr. Diane Urquhart, University of Liverpool
Review of Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Ana Carden-Coyne (ed.), by Ailbhe Rogers, Maynooth University
Review of Jennifer Evans, Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England, by Dr. Elaine Farrell, Queen’s University Belfast
Review of The First World War Diaries of Emma Duffin: Belfast Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse by Trevor Parkhill (Ed.) by Dr. Sandra McAvoy, University College Cork
Review of Senia Pašeta, Irish Nationalist Women 1900-1918, by Dr. Sonja Tiernan, Liverpool Hope University
News
Statement on the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes
Letter to Sunday Times March 2020
Blog
Anna Parnell Travel Grant Awardee Report: Veronica Barry
Anna Parnell Travel Grant Awardee Report: Melissa Shiels
Anna Parnell Travel Grant Awardee Report: Maeve O’Riordan
Irish Women’s History Has Arrived
The Irish army wife: a brief case study
Confessions of a departing WHAI Secretary
Conferencing in Jinan, China
Anna Parnell Travel Grant Awardee Report: Bláthnaid Nolan
Reflections from a student on the WHAI annual conference, 2015
International Women’s Day Celebrations, 2015
Anna Parnell Travel Prize Awardee Report: Paul Huddie
Links
Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes Resources
Justice for Magdalenes Research
IFRWH
Women’s History Resources
The Bibliography of Irish Women’s History
WHAI 2023 Conference Call for Papers
2015 Autumn Seminar – 28th November 2015, 3-5pm
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