HeyJaredThe Women of Ireland Project
A monthly newsletter, written by social researcher and cultural theorist, Dr. Belinda Vigors, exploring the socio-cultural and historical forces that have shaped women of Ireland.
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‘Bloody Resourceful Women’: The herstory of black pudding (opens the original)
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A conversation about black pudding sounds very niche and possibly even a bit ‘off piste’ for the usual Women of Ireland Project content. However, what really struck me as I read Kate Ryan’s new book, Blood, Guts and Black Pudding: Ireland’s Dying Art of Blood as Food is that food history is really social history—and perhaps, even more importantly for my own interests here, food history is women’s history. As Kate explains, the origin and recipes of one of Ireland’s oldest foods lies with a group
Your Irish Granny never wanted you to be a ‘Trad-wife’ (opens the original)
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✨ Come and say hello! I’m delighted to be speaking at a number of events over the coming months, on topics as diverse as Irish identity and cultural patterns, Women in Irish Agriculture, and Irish Sovereignty Goddesses, and it would be wonderful to meet some of you in person (online and in real-life). I’ve included a
How Masculinity Shaped Modern Irish Identity (opens the original)
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What have anxieties about Irish men’s masculinity and their masculine strength got to do with how Irish national identity was constructed and created in the 19th and 20th century? And how did that history shape the lives of women in the post-independence Irish Free State of the 20th century?ShareI will admit, that when I began, many years ago, researching the social
A game of their own (opens the original)
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*The points and topics shared in this article are largely informed by the work of historian Ríona Nic Congáil and her article, “Looking on for Centuries from the Sideline”: Gaelic Feminism and the Rise of CamogieIt’s GAA season. The All-Ireland Senior Men’s Hurling and Gaelic Football finals are nearly upon us, and I want to say something about Camogie—the female variant of (the male game of) hurling—and its fascinatingly subversive h
Beyond the rose-tinted veil: meet the real women of medieval Ireland (opens the original)
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Listen in for stories about soldiers for dowries, women running taverns under Christ Church Cathedral, the first woman to build a castle in Ireland before throwing her architect lover out the window, the life and times of Gráinne O’Malley, and the most detailed and engaging account of what the Brehon Laws really meant for women in medieval Ireland. Dr. Gillian Kenny is an historian and expert in the lives of women in medieval and early modern Ireland. An Associate Professor in the H
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