The VOICES project has published a new blog post, Spotlight on European Women, exploring the lives of women in early modern Ireland who maintained connections with continental Europe.
The feature coincides with Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union and reflects on the long history of movement and exchange between Ireland and Europe. Drawing on the Funeral Entries held at the National Library of Ireland, the blog highlights women whose lives reveal the international links that existed across the continent in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
The Funeral Entries are manuscript records documenting deaths across Ireland and provide valuable insights into everyday lives during the early modern period. Through these sources, the VOICES project continues its mission to recover and showcase the experiences of non-elite women whose stories have often been overlooked in Irish history.
By uncovering records of ordinary women, VOICES demonstrates that these individuals were never absent from the historical record, but instead were often “hiding in plain sight.” The project’s ongoing work, supported by researchers and interns, continues to expand knowledge of women’s lives and bring underrepresented voices into greater public view.
Read the blog post here.
