Speaker: Professor Mary E. Daly, Emeritus Professor of History at University College Dublin (UCD)

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Join Professor Mary E. Daly for her presentation ‘Irish women's working lives in town and country from the 1930s’ on 11/4/26, to hear her incisive responses to artist Pauline O’Connell’s project From Hide to Heel, a socially engaged public art film project that explores and celebrates the intertwined industrial, agricultural, and craft histories through the story of a single, everyday object – the shoe.

Mary E. Daly is Emeritus Professor of History at University College Dublin (UCD) and served for seven years as Principal of UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies; she was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1991 and, in 2014, made history by becoming the first female president in the 230-year history of the Academy. She has held visiting positions at Harvard and Boston College. From 2000 to 2004, she was Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy and vice-chair of the Academy's Working Group on Higher Education.

Over the course of her distinguished career, Professor Daly has researched widely and published prolifically, notably: Dublin, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History, 1860-1914 (1984); Women and Work in Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 (2006); and, with Theo Hoppen, Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011).

The Parade Tower is fully wheelchair accessible with a ramp at the entrance and a lift to the upper floors. If anyone has any further access needs for this event, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Contact email:  fromhidetoheel@gmail.com for more information.