"women" blog posts

Exiled Women – English and Irish nuns at home and awayPainting of a group of people

Exiled Women – English and Irish nuns at home and away

In seventeenth century England, Catholicism was outlawed across the land, punishable by heavy fines, imprisonment, and sometimes execution. Ireland (then under English rule) had just concluded the Nine Year’s War that effectively ended the Gaelic political systems that had survived for centuries, with greater plantation of Protestant settlers to follow.

Posted on: 23 March 2021

Confronting a 'dark and painful reality': the Mother and Baby Homes ReportFlowers left at the site of the Bon Secours, Mother and Baby Home, Tuam

Confronting a 'dark and painful reality': the Mother and Baby Homes Report

Postgraduate research student Lucy Simpson-Kilbane discusses the Mother and Baby Homes Report, Ireland, published earlier this month following a five-year inquiry.

Posted on: 18 January 2021

Emmeline Pankhurst: A Women's History Month Speciala woman being arrested

Emmeline Pankhurst: A Women's History Month Special

Emmeline Pankhurst is an iconic figure in the fight for women’s suffrage in Britain. Through her organisation, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), she campaigned for women’s rights. My research explores the connections between the Pankhurst family and Irish nationalism in Britain. In the case of Emmeline, Irish nationalism provided her with a political education which she publicised in her autobiography My Own Story.

Posted on: 6 March 2020

Shame, stigma, and the abortion debate in IrelandLogos

Shame, stigma, and the abortion debate in Ireland

Exploring the stigma and shame surrounding abortion in Ireland, Masters student Rebecca Boast looks at both sites of the debate, in the lead up to Ireland's referendum.

Posted on: 24 May 2018

Hidden histories - the role of women in Irish War historyDead Man's Penny

Hidden histories - the role of women in Irish War history

Ailbhe McDaid, PhD and Busteed Postdoctoral Research Fellow, gives us an insight into her research 'Women and War: conflict, bereavement and Irish cultural memory, 1914-2018’.

Posted on: 13 June 2017