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Whores, Wenches, and the Blake Family in the Early Modern Irish Atlantic World Professor Jenny Shaw will explore the lives of two women: one an indentured Irish servant (the "whore"); one an enslaved woman (the "wench") who labored in the household of Irish merchant John Blake in Barbados 1675. She explores the techniques historians use to write the lives of ...
This talk will look at the place of the Irish woman migrant in contemporary Irish fiction and examine how Irish writers have demonstrated a sustained interest in recovering the story of the Irish woman emigrant, a story that until relatively recently was absent or under-represented in both historical accounts and literary representations of Irish emigration. In spite of the fact ...
This month’s lecture will be delivered by Padraig Yeates on the Dublin Lockout, the past year of commemoration and lessons drawn from the experience. On 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of ...
