extraORDINARY women
DFA/ Linen Hall Library Collection
Digital Film Archive is proud to have supported Linen Hall
Library’s extraORDINARYwomen project, contributing two films during the
process, both of which have drawn from a deep well of audio-visual material
relating to women’s experiences from 1965 to the present day. The films were
shown as part of the Sparks exhibition in 2020, and the Together We Are Strong
exhibition in 2021.
This new extraORDINARYwomen collection has been selected
by one of the project’s curators to correspond with the project themes. The
collection highlights some of the many programmes that were used in the films, alongside
examples of other valuable material that emerged during the research process. The
audio-visual clips resonate with objects and artefacts held by the Linen Hall
Library in their existing archives, and new items and testimonies that have
been gathered by the project researchers. The collection will form part of the
project’s online legacy, and features, along with the two films, in the extraORDINARYwomen
website.
Linen Hall Library’s project, extraORDINARYwomen:
Supporting Communities (1965-today) is a ground-breaking digital resource
exploring roles and attitudes of women in Northern Ireland during a momentous
period of recent history and political and socioeconomic change.
The project explored the following themes:
Education, Employment & Leadership
Family Life & Gender Roles
Femininity, Appearance & Stereotyping
Health & Resilience
Troubles & Peacetime
Some of the selected clips address these themes very specifically and others cover multiple themes within their subject matter.
You can visit the extraORDINARY women website here