Clodagh Finn

For decades, the account of Julia ‘Juie' O'Riordan's wartime bravery existed only as a family story

The memory of Mary Mulvihill's pioneering work and legacy still burns bright

Irish women have made their mark on the world across generations. Deirdre O'Shaughnessy and Clodagh Finn discuss six such women and their incredible stories

Alfonsina Strada is still the only woman to have taken part in the Giro d’Italia although, happily, a new generation of female professional cyclists are breaking through the many obstacles to shine nationally and internationally

I wish there was some way of telling the 4,114 so-called famine orphans dismissed as “workhouse scrapings” when they were first sent to Australia that the tide has truly turned.

It was seeing Robert Flaherty’s 1934 film 'Man of Aran' that changed the direction of Elizabeth Rivers's life

Two women from the same extended family lived lives that could not have been more different — one a celebrated scientist, the other who lived in poverty and suffered great personal loss, yet both are fascinating women whose stories deserve to be told

Today, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I will be thinking of Lydia Darragh, the Irish Quaker who went through enemy lines to warn George Washington of a planned ambush by the British.

The pages of the diaries a couple kept over six decades of mapping Ireland’s bedrock throughout the 1800s shows some of the strain of their nomadic living

There is so much more to say about the Cummins sisters from Cork city