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.

Journal Article

O’Mahoney, J. (2021). “The role of born digital data in confronting a difficult and contested past through digital storytelling: The Waterford Memories Project. AI & Society, doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01372-0.

Book Chapter

O’Mahoney, J., McCarthy, K., & Culleton, J. (2021). Public Performance and Reclaiming Space: Waterford’s Magdalene Laundry. In M. Haughton, E. Pine, & M. McAuliffe, Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, Gender and Systems of Abuse. Manchester: MUP.

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.

Book Chapter

O’Mahoney, J. (2019). Sites of memory and social justice: Waterford’s Magdalene Laundry. In P. Salter & S. Mukherjee (Eds.), History and Collective Memory: Its Role in Shaping National Identities. New York: Nova.

Book Chapter

O’Mahoney, J., Bowman-Grieve, L., Torn, A. (2019). Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and the psychological architecture of surveillance. In A. Mackay & S. Flynn (Eds.), Surveillance, Architecture and Control. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Review Article

O’Mahoney, J. & McCarthy, K. (2021, June). ‘Closed doors, closed files, hard, closed hearts’ Home: Part One, a response to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes (January 2021) produced by the Abbey Theatre, Ireland (March 2021). Reviewed by Jennifer O'Mahoney and Kate McCarthy. The Psychologist, 34: 63-64.

Journal Article

O’Mahoney, J. (2018). Advocacy and the Magdalene Laundries: Towards a psychology of social change. Qualitative Research in Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2017.1416803.

Magazine Article

O’Mahoney, J. (2020, November). No passive tellers of their past: Jennifer O’Mahoney on narrative psychology and historical institutional abuse. The Psychologist, 33: 68-70

Journal Article

Yeager, J. & Culleton, J. (2016). Gendered violence and cultural forgetting: The case of the Irish Magdalenes. Radical History Review, 126: 134-146.

2. Educational and creative outputs

Educational film

O’Mahoney, J. & McCarthy, K. (2019). Animating Place: A practice-based performance exploring themes of institutional abuse in the South-East of Ireland. [Film; Online video]. Waterford Memories Project.

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Activity & Resource pack

O'Mahoney, J. & McCarthy, K. (2020). Exploring Waterford's Magdalene Heritage: An activity and resource pack. Waterford, Ireland: Waterford Memories Project. Retrieved from the Waterford Memories Project website: https: //www.water fordmemories.com/activity-and-resource-pack

Multidisciplinary performance event

O’Mahoney, J. & McCarthy, K. (October 2016). When Silence Falls: Exploring bodily and literary memory in the Waterford Laundry. Available from: https://www.waterfordmemories.com/whensilencefalls

3. Media

Podcast

O’Neill, J. (Host). (2020, March 27). Waterford’s Magdalene Heritage (No. 27) [Audio podcast episode]. The Nerve.

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

WLRfm (March 18, 2020)

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.

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MEMORIES PROJECT

Project Publications & Outputs

1. Publications

2. Educational and creative outputs

3. Media