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Dr Tara Giddens (Teaching Assistant, School of English, Irish and Communications) presented at the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) conference, entitled “Attending to Ireland”, held in Turku, Finland, May 8-10, 2025. Dr Giddens presented as part of the Irish Women’s Writing (1880-1920) Network (IWWN) Panel and her paper was titled “Recovering Charlotte O’Conor Eccles’ Journalism and Influence in The Lady of the House”. The paper focused on Irish journalist Charlotte O’Conor Eccles’ (1863-1911) often ignored work for the Irish women’s magazine The Lady of the House (1890-1924).

Dr Giddens’ research analyses Eccles’ influence on the ladies’ magazine including her regular column, “Distinguished Irishwomen in London” (1890-1893), where she brings attention to other Irish professional women and provides them a space to voice opinions on contemporary social and political issues. In addition, Dr Giddens’ paper brings attention to Eccles’ influence within the magazine as a possible sub-editor which accounts for the magazine’s early focus on the activities, careers, and publications of several Irish women.

The magazine and Eccles broke the mould in Irish magazine publishing, by constructing radical new role models for educated Irish women and have become an archive of forgotten Irish women’s voices and texts.Dr Giddens’ attendance at this conference was supported by funding from the AHSS Faculty Research Committee.