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Deirdre Connery, member of Duncannon, Co. Wexford ICA guild, Prof Caitríona Beaumont, Mary D’Arcy, President of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA), and Breda Cahill, ICA Wexford Federation President recording episode 1 - Women’s Grassroots Activism: the ICA’s long history of activism - of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast Series at An Grianán.

Women’s Grassroots Activism Podcast Series

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This podcast series tells stories of women’s grassroots activism across the island of Ireland and in England from 1918 to the present. These stories highlight the diverse ways that members of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA), the Soroptimists International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI), the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the Federation of Women’s Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI) contributed to enhancing the lives of women and girls locally, nationally and globally. Funded by United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Afterlives – ‘Talking ’bout revolutions’; conversations across borders about women and revolution’

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In episode 3 of AFTERLIVES, Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD, Gender Studies) is joined by Professor Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds, German Cultural & Gender History) and Dr Corinne Painter (University of Leeds, Intercultural Studies) to discuss the lived experience of Irish and German suffrage, socialist and activist women in the aftermath of war and revolution.

Afterlives – ‘My life wasn’t much after’: women’s voices in the Military Archives

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In episode 2 of AFTERLIVES, Associate Professor Fionnuala Walsh (UCD School of History) is joined by Dr Leeann Lane (DCU) and Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) to discuss the ordinary lived experience of Irish women in the aftermath of war and revolution and also their work uncovering poverty, welfare and the search for recognition of women’s contributions and losses.

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50 Years of Archival Education in UCD

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The School of History marked a significant milestone this year celebrating 50 years since the first archivists were trained in the university. Public awareness of the value of archivists has increased in Ireland over the last two decades, due to the significance of records in Commissions of Inquiry and the Decade of Centenaries but establishing the first training programme took place in a very different context. At this time, individuals had to travel abroad for full professional education and archives were collected mainly by the national repositories on the island and by special collection departments in universities.

UCD School of History CPD Workshop for archivists – Implementing Trauma-Informed Practice in Archives

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How best then can archivists deal with the affect that archives may have on individuals accessing potentially distressing information in the research room? And how do archivists themselves deal with graphic or confronting content when working on archival collections before they are made available to the public? These are questions which have been raised internationally in recent years, mainly due to the uncovering of scandals involving organised religion and/or state institutionalisation of vulnerable communities.

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