Breaking news - from the past! There's so much of it & I had the immense privilege of sharing some of it with @deshocks.bsky.social in a mini-series on her fantastic podcast. Here's a flavour of it. Thank you Eoghan O'Sullivan Https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41778443.html

Teresa Deevy, the playwright once described as 'the Irish Chekhov', died #otd in 1963. Teresa lost her hearing when she was 19 but learned to lip-read in the theatres of London. She returned home to write plays that gave voice to women in the margins. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

A chance encounter in 1942 near RTÉ's 'creaking and groaning' lift (nicknamed Jacob's Ladder) in the GPO led to a lifelong friendship between two remarkable women, who shared a passion for folklore and food and contributed much to Irish cultural life. #RTE100 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

I love this piece from Stephen Fernane about Jessie Buckley's revolutionary great-grandmother Madge Clifford who worked alongside Michael Collins www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...

#ThroughHerEyez How amazing to Cork-born Ethel Lilian Voynich in the spotlight in China. She was the first Irishwoman to sell books by the million. Here's a bit about her from Irishwoman's Diary www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

The very first episode of our very first TV soap Tolka Row aired on RTE #otd in 1964. It ran for five series. It was based on the play written by Maura Laverty, a woman who had many strings to her bow: screenwriter, editor, novelist, and cookery expert.

Gorgeous episode of @deshocks.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social podcast,detailing life of Maureen O'Sullivan,French resistance agent, by way of rathmines,and possible Neurodivergent Legend. Do listen to this fab series if you can! #LaochNearaEagsulacht #SpeirGorm open.spotify.com/episode/7daa...

If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Yet #MoreWomen working to get Dublin hospitals to open their doors to the people who need them, be it in the C18th or C21st. Madam Griselda Steevens is my favourite Dublin hero. Getting stuff done. Nice Christmas listen here. @clodaghfinn.bsky.social 🙏✨ www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Massive thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social for shout out to Digital archives in her latest column, to recent comments I made at launch of #ExploreYourArchive campaign with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social as our new ambassador, and for encouraging all to 1/2 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

A pioneering Alpinist rises again Lizzie Le Blond was one of a kind. She shattered Victorian conventions not only by climbing mountains but by photographing them. Now, a new documentary puts the Irish woman back in the spotlight. www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

On the show today: Keeping kids out of criminal gangs; From Odessa to Kerry; 40 years since Live aid; The Irish mayor of a German Town; @ruthlessimagery.bsky.social on is Christmas just about kids?; World News; @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on Ireland's first female diplomat

Great piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social about Estella Solomons, and about Stella Steyn. #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Some great lines in this piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social - Josephine McNeil - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... #SpéirGhorm

@clodaghfinn.bsky.social has a great piece in The Examiner about Irish Painter, Amelia Curran. And there is to be a book about Amelia Curran by Laura McKenna. #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

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