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    • When do we become the ‘expert in our chosen topic?’
    • ‘Her appearance was unsatisfactory’: Uncovering Northern Irish women’s employment experiences in the 1980s(1)
    • Regulation of midwives in Belfast in the first half of the twentieth century
    • The ‘Lost’ Photographs of Mary Alice Young
  • Book Reviews
    • 2025 Book Review
      • Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844. (Maynooth Studies in Local History: Number 172) (Four Courts Press, 2025)
      • Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe (eds)The politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2024)
      • Margaret Ward Rebel Women. Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924, Beyond the Pale Books, Belfast, 2024
      • Review of Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from Below, 1917-23, edited by John Cunningham and Terry Dunne (Dublin: Four Courts Press,2024)
      • Revolutionary Women of Tipperary 1914-1923 by Noreen Higgins McHugh, Orla Kelly Publishing, 2024
      • So Once Was I: Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery by Warren Farrell
      • Irish First Ladies and First Gentlemen, 1919-2011 by Bernadette Whelan, Cork University Press, 2024
    • 2024 Book Reviews
      • Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760–1810 by Amy Prendergast Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. Paperback ISBN 978-1-83553-726-8
      • Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain’s Greatest Female Codebreaker, Jackie Uí Chionna’s, Headline Publishing Group 2024
      • A Woman’s Place: Challenging values in 1960s Irish Women’s Magazines, Ciara Meehan, Manchester University Press, 2023.
      • Irish Food History: A Companion. Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman(eds.).  Dublin:  Royal Irish Academy and EUt+ Academic Press. 2024.
      • Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain: Welcome and Unwelcome, ed. Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway, Four Courts Press, 2023
      • The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed Through Personal Writing by Mary McAuliffe and Harriet Wheelock (Dublin, 2024)
      • Irish Women’s Speeches Volume II: A Rich Chorus of Voices by Sonja Tiernan (Dublin, 2022)
      • Dr Bronagh Ann McShane FRHistS, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration
      • Clive Moore, The American Red Cross in Northern Ireland During the Second World War. Northern Ireland War Memorial, 2023. ISBN0992930189 / 9780992930189 Paperback.
    • 2023 Book Reviews
      • Review of Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-1992
      • Review of Kathleen Aldworth Foster’s Doneraile Court: The Story of the Lady Freemason
      • Review of Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
      • Review of The Jacobite Duchess by Frances Nolan
      • Review of Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick
      • Review of 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
  • Grants & Prizes
    • Previous Prize-Winners
    • Prize Winners Blogs
      • 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
      • Anna Parnell Travel Grant Awardee Report: Bláthnaid Nolan
      • Anna Parnell Travel Prize Awardee Report: Paul Huddie
  • Resources
    • Women’s Stories Advisory Committee Report
    • Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes Resources
      • Justice for Magdalenes Research
    • The Bibliography of Irish Women’s History
    • Anna Parnell Land Speeches
    • IFRWH
    • Links
  • Past Conferences
    • 2025: Carlow College, Carlow
    • 2024 : Queen’s University Belfast
      • 2024 Conference Call for Papers
    • 2023: UCC, Cork
    • 2022: Online
      • WHAI 2022 Conference CFP
    • 2020/21: Online
      • WHAI Conference 2020/2021 Report
      • WHAI Conference 2020/2021
    • 2019: UCC, Cork
    • 2018: Dublin Castle, Dublin
    • 2017: NUI Galway
      • Call for Papers: WHAI 2017 conference
      • Registration for WHAI 2017 conference
      • Travel and accommodation options
    • 2016: Queen’s University, Belfast
      • Call for papers
      • Getting, staying and playing here
      • WHAI conference 2016
    • 2015: Maynooth University, Maynooth
      • Book Launch: Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland
      • Call for Papers
      • Keynote speakers
      • Getting to Maynooth University
      • WHAI Conference 2015
      • Reflections from a student on the WHAI annual conference, 2015
    • WHAI Past Conferences
  • Archived News
    • 2021 PGR Day Prize Winners
    • Barriers Removed? The 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in Context, 12th November 2016
    • PGR/ECR Day Programme
    • 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
    • Statement on the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes
    • 2015 Autumn Seminar – 28th November 2015, 3-5pm
    • Letter to Sunday Times March 2020
    • Cumann na mBan 100
    • Annual Christmas Event 2020
    • Exhibition: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Public Life, 1918-2018
    • Exhibition: 50 Years of Pioneering Women at the University of Limerick: Past and Present
    • PGR/ECR Day 2021
      • Poster Display
    • Irish Women’s History Has Arrived
    • The Irish army wife: a brief case study
    • Confessions of a departing WHAI Secretary
    • WHAI Christmas Gathering 2022
    • WHAI AGM and Poetry Reading
    • Conferencing in Jinan, China
    • International Women’s Day Celebrations, 2015
  • Past Presidents & Secretaries

Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes Resources

Justice for Magdalenes Research
See here for further details on resources available from JFMR

Research Report on Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland

Tuam Oral History – Survivor Stories

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