UPDATE: The in person lecture is fully booked but you may put your name down on the waiting list, and you can watch the livestream on Dublin City Libraries YouTube channel.
Dublin City Library and Archive is pleased to present the annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture which will be held on 29th May 2024 with a talk by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer entitled, ‘The lived experiences of women in early modern Dublin’.
With a focus on seventeenth-century Dublin, this lecture presents some of the initial findings of Jane Ohlmeyer’s European Research Council project – VOICES – on the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. Drawing on a remarkable body of digital data, this lecture asks two questions. First, what role did Dublin women play in a society undergoing profound economic, political, and cultural transformation? What is clear is that women played a central and diverse role in daily life and especially the operation of the economy at all levels, and thanks to kin, marital, and fosterage links, were the social glue that held families and communities together. Despite legal restrictions and patriarchal norms, the story of land and property was also a story of women’s lives.
