History books are full of men. Women, by contrast, are often absent, or appear only as queens, mistresses, or figures remembered for their notoriety. In this episode of Reimagining Ireland, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, introduces Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland, a groundbreaking digital project that uncovers the everyday lives of women between 1550 and 1700. Closely connected to her book Making Empire, the project sheds light on how ordinary non-elite women navigated both war and peace, despite being largely hidden in the historical record. By recovering their voices, we gain a fuller, more complex understanding of Ireland’s past — and new insights into our present.Explore the project at
voicesproject.ieJane took part in the workshop “Sources from the margins: reflections on the empire in Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(1530s-1790s)" organized by Marie Curie researcher Feliks Levin (Postdoctoral Fellowship under contract number 101105224)
Reimagining Ireland is presented by Katrine Nyland Sørensen and produced for the Classical Influences and Irish Culture project, funded by the European Research Council 818366 and hosted at the Centre for Irish Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.
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