We are all volunteers and bring different experience and skills to the project. On this page, you can find out more about us.
Dr ruth beecher, founder & trustee
is from the People’s Republic of Cork but is London-based. Ruth is a social and cultural historian with interests in race, gender and sexuality, children and families, medicine and psychiatry, and popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. in the twentieth century. Loves oral histories, loves archives, loves teaching. Has also been a leader within local government in children’s services, delivering on policy, commissioning, service design, and evaluation.
Evelyn Kerrigan Lebloch, co-chair of the trustees
was born in County Mayo and moved to London in the mid-eighties. She is a registered social worker specialising in international child protection and safeguarding. Evelyn is committed to children's rights and social justice. She believes there is much to learn from women's stories.
Daisy roberts, trustee
is a Global History Master’s graduate based in London. Her research interests include identity, nation building, and gender. She believes social and feminist histories are crucial to ensuring the historical record reflects the world in which we live.
Ann Joye, trustee & treasurer
is from Cork. She moved to Dublin after university where she worked for five years before relocating to Edinburgh in the late 1990s. Ann has spent her career working within the financial services arena. During a career break, Ann undertook a Masters in Social Anthropology and has always been interested in the stories we tell ourselves and how we utilise these stories to create a sense of self.
professor Ailsa Russell, trustee
was born in Cork and moved to London at the end of the 1980s. She works in the health service and higher education as a clinical psychologist. People’s stories and how they make sense of them have always been a source of inspiration. She is also really interested in how people relate to Ireland and its culture as emigrants, migrants, or part of its diaspora.
Lizzie Barrie, trustee
is from the Philadelphia area of the United States and moved to County Galway in 2023. She has a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science and an Archival Studies Certificate from Drexel University. She worked as a public librarian for nearly twenty years and believes in the power of preserving information and facilitating access to it as a crucial component of social justice.
