A ground-breaking research project, launched yesterday by Trinity College Dublin's School of Histories and Humanities, aims to discover how our female ancestors – so often overlooked in history – experienced and responded to social upheaval and extreme violence in early modern Ireland.
New digital technologies, including AI and ChatGPT, will help release previously forgotten or 'lost' stories from within the vast repositories of historical documents and manuscripts now being made available digitally by institutions in Ireland and around the world.
VOICES: Life and Death, War and Peace, c.1550-c.1700: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland is a €2.5 million five-year European Research Council project and is led by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer.
Among its aims, the project will:
- Uncover the roles women played in Ireland at a time of profound economic, political, and cultural transformation.
- Document women’s experiences of social upheaval, bloody civil war and extreme trauma, especially sexual violence.
- Harness the immense power of AI and knowledge graph technology to represent and give voice to these women.
For more information, see TCD's press release or explore the new dedicated project website at voicesproject.ie.