We may be at peak rent. A 3-bed apartment in Dublin’s northside Drumcondra costs just under €50k a year to rent (€4,250 per month)

daft.ie/for-rent/apart…

An incredible report from the archive on the origin of Women’s Aid.

This year, we mark 50 years of existence and supporting women and children at the most vulnerable time.

RTÉ Archives | Society | Women's Aid rte.ie/archives/2024/…

1/3 “Just 33 out of 187 Magdalene women listed on the headstone for High Park laundry in Glasnevin Cemetery are actually buried at that location”

Conall Ó Fátharta has been a leading light in Ireland on the institutionalisation of vulnerable women and children wrote the above in 2015

This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.

New OA article in Gender & History
from me, Aaron Reeves and Naomi Muggleton on gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher education in the mid-c20th. Lots on elite schools, the role of mothers, and significance of fathers working in education
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Our colleague Judith Harford will present with Dr. Jennifer Redmond and Dr Deirdre Foley on the marriage bar in Ireland at the Centre for the History of Women's Education seminar this evening

Our statement on recent events in Trinity College Dublin. Please Share.

The deadline - 10 May - for applying to our PhD scholarship competition at the School of History and Geography, DCU, is approaching fast. See details below.

By occupying the university in an effort to force it to break all ties with the Zionist colonial project, students are actively decolonising the university.

Protestors rebrand former Berkeley Library in honour of slain Palestinian poet trinitynews.ie/2024/05/protes…

We are urging Trinity alumni who are outraged at Trinity College Dublin's drastic decision to lump TCD Students' Union 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 with a €214K fine, aimed at undermining students' right to protest, to contact the college and demand they rescind the fine.

EMAIL LINK HERE, PLEASE RT: bit.ly/3Wr6U5b

Last night & this morning at TCD’s encampment in support of Palestine. If you’re Trinity staff, bring your Trinity ID and head on over to support the students and their demands.

We have written today to Trinity College Dublin Provost Linda Doyle to express our opposition to the drastic fine imposed on TCD Students' Union 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 for engaging in legitimate protest.

You can read the letter from Lynn, Alice-Mary, Frances & Eileen below 👇

Alice-Mary Higgins Frances Black Eileen Ní Fhloinn

From the classic “ What Would The Irish Do With Ireland? “ The Survey Nov 1921; at the height of the #Treaty100 debate.

Hanna #SheehySkeffington on Mna Eireann .

Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose.

The Dáil Courts, the alternative legal system set up under the First Dáil, was more progressive in relation to women than the system that followed with the establishment of the new State, a recent conference has heard: lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-st…

Wild Looking but Fine offers a new perspective on 1930s Ireland, on the treatment of women at the Abbey Theatre & in Hollywood. It charts an internationalism in Irish acting & directing, connecting it with the work of feminist artists worldwide.

In bookshops nationwide this June

Masters fees at Trinity College Dublin are becoming unsustainably high and the college is refuses to negotiate on them - please help by signing this position:

my.uplift.ie/petitions/stop…

This week on The Magdalenes and I podcast, I talk about the public reaction to the film The Forgotten Maggies Galway Film Fleadh festival in 2009, meeting the Minister for Justice and how one news report by Teresa Mannion changed everything for one Magdalene survivor. Please continue to…

What amazing speakers! #femaleactivism across borders Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network Arts and Humanities Research Council London South Bank University - LSBU National Museum of Ireland Prof Caitríona Beaumont Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS ReginaDunneLaois Dr Sorcha O'Brien Dr Deirdre Foley Dr Ruth Davidson

Paying respect to Frank Sheehy Skeffington at Cahal Brugha barracks, scene of his execution OTD April 1916. Pacifist, feminist, fighter for social justice & beloved husband of Hanna ⁦Micheline Sheehy Skeffington⁩ ⁦BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine⁩

We have a cracker of a roundtable to kick-start our Arts and Humanities Research Council Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network @lsbu network Workshop 2 on #womensgrassrootsactivism in the morning National Museum of Ireland with Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS Dr Sorcha O'Brien @reginaDLaois Dr Deirdre Foley Dr Ruth Davidson Susie Deedigan & me & Prof Lindsey Earner Byrne as chair.