HER-ald: HER archives, literature, documents
An interdisciplinary one-day seminar which aimed to enhance the visibility of Irish women scientists, scholars, authors and others by bringing together archival practitioners, librarians, historians and other stakeholders to discover, discuss and disseminate women's archival collections.
This event was kindly supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media and Mná 100.
PANEL 1: Custodians
Chair: Barbara McCormack, Librarian (Royal Irish Academy).
- 'Our future will become the past of other women'. Meadhbh Murphy, Deputy Librarian (Royal Irish Academy).
- 'The playwright on the stairs: Recovering archival loss of Irish theatre-makers'. Dr Barry Houlihan, Archivist (University of Galway).
- ‘Hark! the Herald-Archivists’. Dr Jane Maxwell, Manuscripts Curator (Manuscripts & Archives Research Collection, The Library of Trinity College Dublin).
- 'In her words: Women in PRONI’s archives'. Lynsey Gillespie, Deputy Head of Public Services (Public Records Office of Northern Ireland) and Project Manager of Making the Future, Women in Archives.
- 'Sources for Irish Women's History database, 1999-2023'. Professor Maria Luddy, Emeritus Professor of Modern Irish History (University of Warwick) and Director of the Women's History Project, 1997-2001.
PANEL 2: Consultants
Chair: Emeritus Colm Lennon MRIA (Maynooth University).
- 'Using the archives to write histories of queer female sexualities in Ireland'. Dr Mary McAuliffe, Director of Gender Studies (University College Dublin).
- 'This is for the historian not yet born': Reading unionist women'. Diane Urquhart MRIA, President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland and Professor of Gender History (Queen’s University Belfast).
- 'Victims? Women in compensation records from the Irish revolution'. Dr Brian Hughes, Director of the Irish Association of Professional Historians and Lecturer of Twentieth Century Irish History (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick).
- ‘The space between the notes: Women’s voices across time'. Virginia Teehan MRIA, Chief Executive Officer (Heritage Council).
PANEL 3: Creatives
Chair: Bernadette Whelan MRIA (University of Limerick).
- '50 years of pioneering women at the University of Limerick: Past and present'. Dr Martin Walsh, Lecturer of Social and Gender History (University of Limerick) and Curator of 50 Years of Pioneering Women: Past and Present.
- 'Her voice, through the works of Cartoon Saloon'. Nora Twomey, Co-founder of Cartoon Saloon.
- 'Curating Mná100'. Dr Sinead McCoole, Historian and Curator of Mná100.
- 'Hidden stories: The inspiration found in women's archival collections'. Andrew Hughes, author of The Coroner’s Daughter (Penguin-Transworld, 2018), 2023 One Dublin One Book.
Location: Academy House
Date: Thursday, 14 December 2023