Tuesday Night Talks at Ardkeen Library – Who Writes History? Wikipedia, Women and the Knowledge Gap with Amy O’Riordan
Ardkeen Library is delighted to welcome historian and community manager with Wikimedia Community Ireland, Amy O’Riordan, for a talk on Who Writes History? Wikipedia, Women and the Knowledge Gap on Tuesday 29th September at 6:30pm as part of it’s Tuesday Night Talks series.
Amy O’Riordan (she/they) is Community Manager with Wikimedia Community Ireland, the organisation that supports Wikipedia and free knowledge projects on the island of Ireland. A Waterford native, Amy holds a BA in French and Irish from WIT (now SETU, 2013), an HDip in Applied Psychology from UCC (2020), and an MA in Regional Irish History from Carlow College/SETU (2023), where her research focused on women, resistance, and marginalised communities in 19th century folklore.
Amy joined Wikimedia Community Ireland in July 2023 as the organisation’s first Oifigeach Gaeilge (Irish Language Officer), before moving into her current role as Community Manager earlier this year. Their work centres on championing gender and linguistic diversity on Wikipedia (in both English agus as Gaeilge) empowering people to improve representation and access to knowledge through initiatives like Art+Feminism, and the Wiki Women Erasmus+ Project, which developed open educational resources to address the gender gap in online knowledge across three European minoritised languages (Irish, Basque and Frisian.)
Under the name The Crafty Cailleach, Amy also creates public history content online which explores the history of women and witchcraft in an Irish context, and has delivered talks on the topic at events across Ireland.
Free Event – Booking Required
Contact Ardkeen Library 051 849755 for bookings and information.
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