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    • Gendered Voices and Perspectives of the Irish Revolution within Public Memory
    • 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
    • 2026 Book Review
      • Angela Byrne: Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia (Lilliput Press, 2024)
    • 2025 Book Review
      • Angela Byrne: 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
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  • 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
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