ALL WELCOME to the launch of WTF HAPPENED #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre @irishtheatreinstitute.ie @druidtheatre.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social @martindoyle.bsky.social by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell

@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @sineadgleeson.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

“If they were alive, all 10 would certainly salute this gifted writer who has done so much to restore women to our lopsided historical narrative.” Thank you to Clodagh Finn for such a brilliant piece on Nicola Pierce’s newest title. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Lovely article by the fab @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on the wonderful @nicolapierce.bsky.social 's new book!!! Great Irish Wives! Worth a repost!

We're really looking forward to this Dublin Book Fair event in November with Evelyn Conlon (author and UCD Press co-editor of After the Train) and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with author and journalist Clodagh Finn! Saturday, 8 November 11 am IMMA, RHK 🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... A true hero of early C18th Ireland, improving ordinary lives through solid good works, steering refreshingly clear of violence. Great to see Dublin's indefatigable Madam Steevens in the spotlight, thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social 👏 @dublincitylibs.bsky.social

If you're in Limerick on the evening of Thursday 25 September, I'll be sharing research from my upcoming book on pregnancy and paternity disputes in 18th/19th century Ulster as part of the Limerick History Festival. Be lovely to see folks there! #womenshist #histsex #histfam

#Irishwoman'sDiary If a visiting monkey has a place in the streetscape in Clonakilty, Mary Jane Irwin, poet, activist, mother of 13 and wife of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa certainly deserves one too. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Plus ca change ... (Irish print from c.1777, British Museum) a.k.a. 'notions'

Born #Onthisday 1894 Monica Wichfeld who was raised in #Fermanagh. Later she was a leading member of the Danish resistance during t#WW2 & was the 1st woman in Denmark to receive a capital sentence for resistance against the Nazis -she died in Waldheim Prison in 1945 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

Died #Onthisday 1989 Oonah Keogh who became the first female member of the Dublin Stock Exchange, in 1925 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social heritage.wicklowheritage.org/people/oonag...

My wee mum died a month ago. I still can’t believe it. Part of me never will. Today, I’ve got to return to work (self-employed). We have laws granting paid leave for birth - rightly so. We should also, I think, offer similar support for people living with loss. Grief Leave. A kindness.

“Mama! Mum, mummy, mom, mother, ma, child-bearer, parent!” Roget’s first words

Died #Onthisday 1976 #Dublin born Rosie Hackett, nationalist, trade unionist, & workers' rights activist @clodaghfinn.bsky.social dib.ie/node/25563/r...

Died #Onthisday 1926 Eva Gore-Booth, suffragist, artist and poet - B&W📷Eva, Constance (Countess Markievicz) & dog Satan, 1896 at the High Ashes farmhouse, Abinger, Surrey @clodaghfinn.bsky.social lissadellhouse.com/eva-gore-boo...

'a gloriously affirming collection of essays that sets out not only what was wrong in Irish society 50 years ago but, more importantly, how it was righted' Thanks @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for the fine review of After the Train www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Died #Onthisday 1949 Róisín Walsh, republican, feminist & first chief librarian #Dublin www.dublincity.ie/library/blog... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social (Gravestone image via IGP)

Just finished reading The Irish in the Resistance by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and John Morgan; I can't recommend it highly enough. Brilliantly told and incredibly easy to read. Fascinating stories of a bunch of people who, IMO, had absolutely no need to risk their lives but did so anyway.

Died #Onthisday 1999 Dr Victoria Coffey, one of the 1st female paediatricians in Ireland, 1st female recipient of RCSI’s Distinguished Graduate Medal, 1st woman President of both the Irish Paediatric Association & the RCSI Postgraduates’ Assoc. @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬

Born #Onthisday 1862 #IrishAuthor & #Sufragette VIOLET ROSS who wrote under the pseudonym Martin Ross with cousin Edith Somerville. She was VP of the Munster Women's Franchise League @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ B&W 📸 with Sommerville in #Cork c1890 www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

#Onthisday 1903 Trinity College voted 74 to 11 to carry the resolution 'that it is desirable that degrees in the University of Dublin shall be opened to women' @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬

Born #Onthisday 1883 - Nun & Botanist Clare Emma Whitty who died on ‘Tiger Death March’ in North Korea in 1950 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/3C00vT5

Born #Onthisday 1877 in #Kanturk #Cork Hanna Sheehy (Skeffington) 'her commitment to women’s equality, social justice and international solidarity never wavered in a lifetime of feminist activism spanning two world wars' @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ rte.ie/centuryirela... B&W📸NLI

Born #Onthisday 1910 in Fermoy #Cork author Una Troy who began writing as Elizabeth Connor in 1936 with a 'Mount Prospect' banned in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board - More @ria.ie dib.ie/biography/tr... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬

Died #Onthisday 1941, Lola Ridge, 'Modernist poet, anarchist, labour activist' - more about the woman born in #Dublin in 1873 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

#Onthisday 1945, the Royal Society announced the election to its Fellowship of two women: Marjory Stephenson & #Kildare born crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (pictured with Douglas Hyde) @clodaghfinn.bsky.social royalsociety.org/blog/2023/03... 📸https://buff.ly/4060h7I

Born #Onthisday 1852 in #Wicklow Anna Parnell, nationalist & land activist & founder of the Ladies Land League - on the 1891 census she noted her occupation as 'Living on own means' More from @clodaghfinn.bsky.social irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Died #Onthisday 1971 Lillian Bland - journalist & 'she not only flew Ireland’s first powered biplane, but was also the first woman in the world to design, build and fly an aeroplane' - @clodaghfinn.bsky.social more womensmuseumofireland.ie/exhibits/lil... & lilianbland.ie

Died #Onthisday 1939 #Limerick born Sophie Peirce-Evans (Lady Mary Heath) Standing at 6 foot, she set a world high jump record (1923), a world record javelin throw (1924) & in 1928 became the 1st woman to fly solo from South Africa to England @clodaghfinn.bsky.social 📷UTA

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am getting up close and personal with “Lady Betty,” Ireland’s Female Executioner, and the awesome @clodaghfinn.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Tuning in to Betwixt the Sheets to hear the lovely @clodaghfinn.bsky.social talk about Lady Betty, the Roscommon executioner!

Today is International Day of the Midwife - this is Mary Anne Fanning c1910 a District Midwife & Nurse in Co #Kerry and then in Garristown, Co #Dublin @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/2... #IDM2025 #WeMidwives

Born #Onthisday 1920 Elizabeth Shaw, the Irish artist & children's author, who charmed East German children. Her fascinating story is contained in @sabineegger.bsky.social publication dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

Excellent and important piece from Cliona Foley on the myriad ways in which misogyny grinds us down. @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/pe...

Born #Onthisday 1875 in Portadown, Doctor Isobel Tate. At the outbreak of #WW1 she volunteered in Serbia as a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps & later in Valetta working tirelessly until her untimely death during service on 28/1/1917 armaghi.com/news/portado... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

Died #Onthisday 2014 at Aherla, #Cork, the fascinating Daphne Pochin Mould, geologist, author, photographer, pilot & Ireland's first female flight instructor @clodaghfinn.bsky.social www.dib.ie/biography/mould-daphne-desiree-charlotte-pochin-a10175

Died #Onthisday 1953 Maud Gonne, revolutionary, feminist, activist. B&W📸LOC nli.ie/1916/exhibit... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

Born #Onthisday 1865 in #Cork Mary Fleetwood Berry (Chatterton) suffragist, member of the Connaught Women's Franchise League, active member of the Women's National Health Association & elected president of the Irish Women's Temperance Union in 1900 and 1912 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

📚🎉 Happy #WorldBookDay, everyone! 🌍✨ Let's celebrate the magic of stories that transport us to new worlds and inspire our imaginations... 📖 What's your favourite book by an Irish author? [📷: Woman reading a book, Clonbrock Photographic Collection, circa 1860-1900; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

Born #Onthisday 1814 the ‘Angel of Baltimore’ Angela Burdett Coutts. The philanthropist transformed the lives of fishermen in #WestCork in the 1800s More @SouthernStarIRL southernstar.ie/news/angel-o... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social B&W📸NPG

Died #Onthisday 1946 #Cork born Hannah Sheehy Skeffington. She was a founder member of the Irish Women’s Franchise League in 1908 which quickly became the biggest suffrage group in Ireland @clodaghfinn.bsky.social dib.ie/biography/sk... B&W📸LOC with son Owen c1915-1920

#Onthisday 1923 Mary D. Heron was admitted to the Roll, becoming the first woman solicitor in Ireland www.dib.ie/biography/he... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

Born #OnThisDay 1887 in #Killeagh #Cork Bridget Foley, Cumann na mBan member & #EasterRising veteran. She played in the first ever Camogie match at Navan on 17 July 1904 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬

Born #OnThisDay 1878 in #Limerick Kathleen Daly Clarke 1st female Lord Mayor of #Dublin, wife of Tom & sister of Ned Daly executed #EasterRising. On her election in 1939, she refused to wear the Lord Mayor’s Chain as it had a bust of King William III on the medal @clodaghfinn.bsky.social B&W📸NLI

Here’s @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on Jellett and Hone. Love the story of them turning up at Albert Gleizes’s studio and demanding he teach them the ways of Cubism. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social

Great piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social We should also be speaking of the strip searching of republican women in Armagh and Maghaberry which, as my research shows, is a clear example of how the state weaponises violence to punish what I call "unruly women". www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Super piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social That telling line "We don’t need any investigation, though, to see that this was heavy-handedness in action".

Thank you for the mention of Mary MacSwiney in this weekend's Irish Examiner @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @lloislanel.bsky.social 'a woman whose imprisonment & 3-week hunger strike in 1922 made national & international headlines.. a timely and important book' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

#ThroughHerEyes Comic genius Maureen Potter died #otd in 2004 (thank you very much @irishfamilydetective.ie for the remainder). This year also marks the centenary of her birth. Here's my tribute to her: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Born #Onthisday 1869 in #Dublin May (Abraham) Tennant, trade unionist, factory inspector & campaigner. May & Lucy Deane Streatfeild were the first women to be made magistrates in Kent @clodaghfinn.bsky.social - more blogs.kent.ac.uk/womenshistor...