extraORDINARYwomen engaged with women from all generations and from diverse backgrounds across Northern Ireland. Women recorded inspiring oral histories elucidating their lived experiences and capturing responses to contemporary issues affecting women in Northern Ireland.
This archive is a selection of clips from the oral histories undertaken. The full oral history archive and transcripts are available to consult at the Linen Hall Library.
The extraORDINARYwomen project at the Linen Hall Library has one fundamental goal: to celebrate the significance of ordinary women’s lives in Northern Ireland. As part of Ciara McAllister's PhD research, Ciara explored the Theatre and Performing Arts collections in the Linen Hall Library, looking specifically at materials relating to community arts.
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Anna Lo discusses her election journey, making change for a better future and her debut in politics. A tough campaigning journey proved to be fruitful as she made history by becoming ‘the first non-white elected politician in Northern Ireland and more astonishingly, the first China-born parliamentarian in Europe.’
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Carol Moore, a co-founder of Charabanc Theatre Company, talks about the exciting first years of the company, and what she describes as ‘a journey of female empowerment’.
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