Last night was the launch of 'Outsider Women' an online exhibition of digitised archival collections from RCSI, Maynooth University and DCU: St Patrick's College through the 3U Partnership.
This online exhibition explores the lives of Emily Winifred Dickson (FRCSI 1893), Agnes O' Farrelly (Irish language activist and writer) and Teresa Deevy (playwright). These women lived in different time periods and social worlds but are connected by two major themes - their contribution to their societies and their status as outsiders, either in their contemporary world or in our subsequent historical recordings of it.
All three collections have been catalogued, digitised and made available through their own standalone websites. Click on the links below to visit each one
In a video and essay Dr Jennifer Redmond, Lecturer in Twentieth Century Irish History in the Department of History at Maynooth University, explains the importance of these three women to Irish history and explores their contribution to the societies of which they were a part, yet outside.
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| Dr Jennifer Redmond at the 'Outsider Women' launch held in the National Library |
The objectives of this collaborative venture by the 3U Partnership Libraries of RCSI, Maynooth University and DCU: St Patrick's College are
- The creation of an Irish online, open access, digital humanities research resource that supports professional training in archives management
- To encourage collaborations between academic historians, librarians and archivists across the 3U Partner Institutions and
- The development of a template to guide the presentation of thematic digital collections to the public which combine academic scholarship with curated online digital archival collections from RCSI, Maynooth University and DCU: St Patrick's College
So keep an eye on the 3U Digital Humanities homepage because this project is just the start of a number which will be coming down the line shortly.
- Researched and written by Meadhbh Murphy