Women’s History Association of Ireland
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The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
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WHAI2026
Welcome to the homepage for the next Women's History Association of Ireland conference.
Our next annual conference will take place 29-30 May 2026 at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
The conferenc...
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We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026.
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Honoured to have been elected President of the WHAI. Impressive shoes to fill following Diane Urquhart. Wonderful association to represent.
On behalf of the committee and all of the members of the WHAI we would like to thank Diana Urquhart for her support as president of the association over the past five-years. Congratulations too to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social our new WHAI president.
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Honoured to have been elected President of the WHAI. Impressive shoes to fill following Diane Urquhart. Wonderful association to represent.
We had a really great catch up yesterday. Thanks again to @melissashiels.bsky.social for a fascinating talk on how Regency women dressed.
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We had a really great catch up yesterday. Thanks again to @melissashiels.bsky.social for a fascinating talk on how Regency women dressed.
Looking forward to meeting old friends for a catch up tomorrow. There is still time to register for our AGM and Christmas event. Thanks to @melissashiels.bsky.social for agreeing to be our guest speaker - it promises to be a brilliant talk.
Only three days left to our Christmas event & AGM. Our Guest speaker is @melissashiels.bsky.social who will give a costumed talk. Please do register and we look forward to seeing this Saturday.
Only six days left to our annual Christmas event and AGM. Don't forget to register via the link below if you want to attend.
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Looking forward to meeting old friends for a catch up tomorrow. There is still time to register for our AGM and Christmas event. Thanks to @melissashiels.bsky.social for agreeing to be our guest speaker - it promises to be a brilliant talk.
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Looking forward to this year’s @whaireland.bsky.social Christmas event on Saturday! If you’re about in Dublin, call in and raise a merry glass 🍷
More info here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/whai-chris...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looking forward to this year’s @whaireland.bsky.social Christmas event on Saturday! If you’re about in Dublin, call in and raise a merry glass 🍷
More info here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/whai-chris...
More info here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/whai-chris...
Only three days left to our Christmas event & AGM. Our Guest speaker is @melissashiels.bsky.social who will give a costumed talk. Please do register and we look forward to seeing this Saturday.
Only six days left to our annual Christmas event and AGM. Don't forget to register via the link below if you want to attend.
Our annual Christmas event and AGM is happening on 6 December. Click on link to register.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Only three days left to our Christmas event & AGM. Our Guest speaker is @melissashiels.bsky.social who will give a costumed talk. Please do register and we look forward to seeing this Saturday.
We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026.
sites.google.com/view/whai202...
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WHAI2026
Welcome to the homepage for the next Women's History Association of Ireland conference.
Our next annual conference will take place 29-30 May 2026 at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
The conferenc...
sites.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026.
sites.google.com/view/whai202...
sites.google.com/view/whai202...
Only six days left to our annual Christmas event and AGM. Don't forget to register via the link below if you want to attend.
Our annual Christmas event and AGM is happening on 6 December. Click on link to register.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Only six days left to our annual Christmas event and AGM. Don't forget to register via the link below if you want to attend.
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It was such an honour to give this lecture about @voicestcd.bsky.social
A huge thank you to the amazing team at @royalhistsoc.org & to everyone who joined us.
A huge thank you to the amazing team at @royalhistsoc.org & to everyone who joined us.
Our great thanks to Jane Ohlmeyer who gave the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture on Friday evening.
Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians
Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians
Jane Ohlmeyer delivers the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture - RHS
On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Jane's lecture in...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It was such an honour to give this lecture about @voicestcd.bsky.social
A huge thank you to the amazing team at @royalhistsoc.org & to everyone who joined us.
A huge thank you to the amazing team at @royalhistsoc.org & to everyone who joined us.
Congratulations to Mary on being appointed @araukie.bsky.social Ambassador 2025-26. A richly deserved recognition of her continued commitment to unearthing the stories of the often forgotten women of Ireland.
Had a wonderful evening with @araireland.bsky.social at the lunch my #exploreyourarchive ambassador role 2025-26. Great chats had about archives and history making with the students on @ucddublin.bsky.social MA Archives & Record Management course. Really looking forward to being the #eya ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Congratulations to Mary on being appointed @araukie.bsky.social Ambassador 2025-26. A richly deserved recognition of her continued commitment to unearthing the stories of the often forgotten women of Ireland.
Our annual Christmas event and AGM is happening on 6 December. Click on link to register.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Our annual Christmas event and AGM is happening on 6 December. Click on link to register.
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Please do spread the word.
Just a reminder to our members we will be updating our Members Directory in December. If you would like to have your name added to the Directory please email Martin at [email protected]. We especially encourage PhD & ECR's to submit their name to the Directory.
On this International Women's Day the WHAI is delighted to announce our intention to create an online Directory for our members. See below for more details.
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Please do spread the word.
As the WHAI continue to promote the Discipline of Women's History in Ireland we are delighted to announce that we are now on LinkedIn. If you are on LinkedIn please do give us a follow.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As the WHAI continue to promote the Discipline of Women's History in Ireland we are delighted to announce that we are now on LinkedIn. If you are on LinkedIn please do give us a follow.
Delighted to have our next book review up online this morning. Thanks to Berni Dwan for taking the time to review it for us.
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Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1944. (Maynooth Studies in Local History: Number 172) (Four Courts Press, 2025)
Hands up if you sometimes skip the preface of a book. Well please don’t do that when you read Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844. The preface to Finding Mary is a fine piec…
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November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Delighted to have our next book review up online this morning. Thanks to Berni Dwan for taking the time to review it for us.
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
Just a reminder to our members we will be updating our Members Directory in December. If you would like to have your name added to the Directory please email Martin at [email protected]. We especially encourage PhD & ECR's to submit their name to the Directory.
On this International Women's Day the WHAI is delighted to announce our intention to create an online Directory for our members. See below for more details.
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Just a reminder to our members we will be updating our Members Directory in December. If you would like to have your name added to the Directory please email Martin at [email protected]. We especially encourage PhD & ECR's to submit their name to the Directory.
This will be of interest to many of our members. It will be launched at the RIA on 1 Dec. at 6pm by Miriam O Callaghan (RTE).
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Childhood and the Irish: a miscellany
Childhood and the Irish: a miscellany
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November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This will be of interest to many of our members. It will be launched at the RIA on 1 Dec. at 6pm by Miriam O Callaghan (RTE).
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This will be of interest to many of our members.
October 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This will be of interest to many of our members.
We have a new book review this morning. Thanks to Aisling Keavey for taking the time to review it for us. @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @jenniferredmond.bsky.social
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Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe (eds)The politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2024)
The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader offers a rich, layered exploration of how gender and sexuality have both shaped and been shaped by Ireland’s social and political hi…
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October 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
We have a new book review this morning. Thanks to Aisling Keavey for taking the time to review it for us. @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @jenniferredmond.bsky.social
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We are delighted to have another book review up online this evening. Thanks to @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for taking the time to review it for us.
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Margaret Ward Rebel Women. Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924, Beyond the Pale Books, Belfast, 2024
Frances ‘Frank’ Brady is one of the few members of Cumann na mBan who went on hunger strike during the War of Independence, and more unusually, for whom a photograph exists of her in bed, in jail, …
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October 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We are delighted to have another book review up online this evening. Thanks to @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for taking the time to review it for us.
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This will be of interest to some of our members.
September 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This will be of interest to some of our members.
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Tickets for my talk on the letters of sympathy sent to Canon Begley and his parishioners following the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire are now available through the link below. The talk is on Sunday 28 September in Newcastle West county Limerick.
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Martin Walsh- Limerick History Festival | The Limerick Civic Trust
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September 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Tickets for my talk on the letters of sympathy sent to Canon Begley and his parishioners following the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire are now available through the link below. The talk is on Sunday 28 September in Newcastle West county Limerick.
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If you can help, please do make contact with Elliot.
Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.
September 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If you can help, please do make contact with Elliot.
Our latest book review is now online. Thanks to Dr Elaine Callinan for taking the time to review it for us.
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Review of Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from Below, 1917-23, edited by John Cunningham and Terry Dunne (Dublin: Four Courts Press,2024)
The Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from Below, 1917–23 offers a genuinely refreshing perspective on Ireland’s revolutionary period. Each of the fourteen chapters thoughtfully align with the book’s t…
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September 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Our latest book review is now online. Thanks to Dr Elaine Callinan for taking the time to review it for us.
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Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the publication of her first book which is now available with Bloomsbury
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Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain
Throughout the Twentieth Century many women in Ireland and Britain endured shame and institutionalisation for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. In this wel…
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September 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the publication of her first book which is now available with Bloomsbury
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Something to be aware of.
Thankfully, No longer on this platform.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Something to be aware of.
We are looking for a book reviewer for this brilliant publication by @leannecalvert.bsky.social. Please contact Judy at [email protected] if you are interested.
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Pious and promiscuous
Pious and promiscuous – Life, love and family in Presbyterian Ulster will be published on 15 October 2025. Pre-orders will be sent out the week of publication. Step into the intimate worlds of Presby...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We are looking for a book reviewer for this brilliant publication by @leannecalvert.bsky.social. Please contact Judy at [email protected] if you are interested.
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