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  • Events
    • WHAI 2023 Conference Call for Papers
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    • Exhibition: 50 Years of Pioneering Women at the University of Limerick: Past and Present
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    • WHAI Past Conferences
      • WHAI Conference 2020/2021
        • WHAI Conference 2020/2021 Recordings
        • WHAI Conference 2020/2021 Report
        • 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
      • WHAI Annual Conference 2017
        • Call for Papers: WHAI 2017 conference
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        • Getting, staying and playing here
      • WHAI Conference 2015
        • Book Launch: Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland
        • Call for Papers
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        • Getting to Maynooth University
    • 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
  • Grants and Prizes
    • Previous Prize-Winners
  • Book Reviews
    • 2023 Book Reviews
      • Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-1964 by Lynsey Black
      • Review of Mary Kenny’s The Way We Were
      • 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
  • Resources
    • Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes Resources
      • Justice for Magdalenes Research
    • Anna Parnell Land Speeches
    • IFRWH
    • Links
  • The Bibliography of Irish Women’s History

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