Project Publications & Outputs
1. Publications
Publishing the research outputs of the Waterford Memories Project is an important way of addressing the project's aim to encourage collaboration and education about Ireland's history of coercive confinement. Publishing also helps to preserve the project's work in the permanent records of research in the field. Academic publications undergo a process called "peer review" where experts in a similar field review the work to ensure that the work is valid and robust.
We would like to highlight that there is no financial income generated from these academic publications for the authors and/or the Waterford Memories Project.
Book Chapter
O’Mahoney, J. (forthcoming, 2022). The Role of Digital and Public Humanities in Confronting the Past: Survivors’ of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries Truth Telling. In T. Thomson & A. Schwan, Palgrave Handbook for the Digital and Public Humanities. London: Palgrave.
Book Chapter
O’Rourke, M., O’Mahoney, J., & O’Donnell, K. (2021). Institutional abuse in Ireland: Lessons from survivors and legal professionals. In O. Lynch, J. Windle, & Y. Ahmed (Eds.), Nothing about us without us: Giving voice to diversity in Criminological Research. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
2. Educational and creative outputs
3. Media
Podcast
Dr. Jenny O’Connor is joined by Dr. Jennifer O’Mahoney and Dr. Kate McCarthy of the Waterford Memories Project which aims to document survivors’ narratives about their time in Magdalene laundries and to offer educational resources to schools and the general public that focus on the social history, cultural and built heritage of Waterford’s former Magdalene Laundry and Industrial School.
Radio appearance
KCLR (January 30, 2021) hosted by Edward Hayden
Dr. Jennifer O’Mahoney, tells us about the Waterford Memories Project, an oral history of trauma, narrated by survivors.
Radio appearance
As school pupils move their learning to home, researchers in the School of Humanities at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have developed a resource for schools, which will help the next generation understand Ireland’s Magdalene Heritage.