This might tickle you if you're Irish, or know Mayo, but after @clodaghfinn.bsky.social's article at the weekend about Millie Robinson 🇮🇪 I went looking for the farm she grew up on. It's a couple of fields in the left of the red-bounded area here, about 4 kms south of Killala. #TdFF2026 #SpeirGorm

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The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm

A woman from Mayo won the first Tour de France for women! How is this not common knowledge……oh, yeah cos it’s a woman. 🙄 What an incredible feat! 🚲 ♀️ 🙏 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social column For telling the ♀️stories #SpeirGorm

Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for women

The memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...

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The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm

Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for women

The memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...

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Wonderful to see the Kinahan Collection highlighted here in this article about Peadar McArdle's recent book. Peadar worked his way through the extensive diary collection of Henry and Harriette Kinahan, housed here in the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie

Clodagh Finn@clodaghfinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

The diaries of field geologist Henry Kinahan and his artist wife Harriette paint a vivid picture of science in the 19th century, even though they wrote only 10 or so words a day. See Peader McArdle's illuminating new book. #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

The diaries of field geologist Henry Kinahan and his artist wife Harriette paint a vivid picture of science in the 19th century, even though they wrote only 10 or so words a day. See Peader McArdle's illuminating new book. #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: He mapped the bedrock of Ireland, she drew it. One couple’s nationwide odyssey

Clodagh Finn explores how newly published diaries reveal the personal sacrifices behind pioneering geological research in 19th-century Ireland

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Six new eps of the Irishwoman's Diary miniseries with @clodaghfinn.bsky.social - we discussed philanthropist Arabella Denny; lesbian nun Bridget Coll; Olympian Maeve Kyle; actress Genevieve Lyons; war reporter Gertrude Gaffney & Countess Joan Fitzgerald www.irishexaminer.com/podcasts/podcast-dos

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast - Irish Examiner

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast - Irish Examiner: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

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Today, on the 250th anniversary of the American 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. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Once again obsessed with @deshocks.bsky.social amazing podcast series: An Irish Woman's Diary. @clodaghfinn.bsky.social really brings these compelling women to life. Particularly enjoyed hearing about Lady Arabella Denny. Listen immediately!

Enough with the gun toters. Cd we pls have a memorial to our C18th healthcare revolutionary Griselda Steevens, funder & founder of Dublin’s Steevens Hospital in 1733 ‘for the relief & maintenance of curable poor persons’, now home to @hselive.bsky.social. @dermotlacey.bsky.social shorturl.at/d6YfN

I knew very little about modernist artist Elizabeth Rivers until last week. She went on a visit to Inis Mór after seeing Man of Aran and stayed 8 years Her spirit returns on Tuesday when the three-day Rivers on Aran begins. Photos: © Elizabeth Rivers Estate www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

Any Bray people out there who could help with this? I was delighted to see Philomena Burke, community pharmacist, remembered on Quinsborough Road. I will dig a bit but can anybody tell me anything about her?

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 extraordinary to hear Australian ambassador Chantelle Taylor speaking in Irish to honour these girls...

Clodagh Finn: Bringing home something of the famine orphans who shaped Australia

Between 1848 and 1850, thousands of young Irish girls were sent to struggling colonies in Australia

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As the Giro d'Italia's women's race gets underway today, meet the only woman who ever rode in the men's race. Also, Ireland's cycling pioneers and why they were warned of the dangers of 'bicycle face'. Irishwoman's Diary today @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: Female cycling pioneers were told they risked ‘bicycle face’, but time has not removed barriers

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 na...

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Kathleen Cuthbert (née Ferguson) is in the roll of honour in The Irish in the Resistance by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social & John Morgan. archives.wartimeni.com/person/kathl... Minor footnote, her husband Prof Norman was one of my statistics lecturers at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Kathleen Cuthbert - WartimeNI

Born in Doagh, Co. Antrim, Kathleen Cuthbert went on to work on some of the highest level, top-secret work in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.

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Patrick Brannigan@patrickjmb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This book is fascinating, inspirational, and sad, too. The picture is of Catherine Crean, of Moore Street in Dublin, who was arrested for helping Allied airmen in Brussels. The Irish in the Resistance: @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and John Morgan ISBN-13: 978-0717191352 Publisher: Gill Books #SpéirGhorm

This book is fascinating, inspirational, and sad, too. The picture is of Catherine Crean, of Moore Street in Dublin, who was arrested for helping Allied airmen in Brussels. The Irish in the Resistance: @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and John Morgan ISBN-13: 978-0717191352 Publisher: Gill Books #SpéirGhorm

Patrick Brannigan@patrickjmb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Beckett's contribution described by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan in their The Irish in the Resistance: The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler. #SpéirGhorm @clodaghfinn.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Exciting news! @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and I had such fun making our podcast mini-series An Irishwoman's Diary that Series Two will be available in June. ICYMI, Series One is available here - you can listen back to all the episodes at this link: www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

An Irishwoman's Diary series 1: Meet the Irish women who left their mark on history

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

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This work is the most exciting I've come across for a long time... It is unearthing a chorus of new female voices from the early modern period and giving them wonderful expression. Meet Catherine Strong, the Dung Queen of Ireland in the 1600s. Love it. 🙌

VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND@voicestcd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happening today at 11am in the @tlrhub.bsky.social. Come and join us! @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @drdpatterson.bsky.social @clairemcnulty.bsky.social @nearfm.ie

A great Irish artist and illustrator with a quirky sense of humour when required and even available for commissions. Well worth checking out for the saints or sinners in your life.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Local saint St. Brendan's feast day today, so here's an illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

How do you you mind the legacy of a brilliant woman? @clodaghfinn.bsky.social spills the tea in her @irishexaminer.bsky.social column today. 💚 @rememberingmary.bsky.social #Speirgorm

Clodagh Finn: A champion of science who had the gift of inspiring wonder

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

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Check out our latest article on ‘Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in Women’s History: The VOICES Project (Ireland)’! By Lucy McKenna @bamcshane.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social Declan O’Sullivan @drdpatterson.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social voicesproject.ie/impact/digit...

'Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in Women's History: The VOICES project (Ireland)' published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History - VOICES

This chapter written by the VOICES team, offers a brief introduction to the ‘digital windfall’ of Irish historical data (Part I) and also discusses the innovative technologies and methods that the VOI...

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"That to me is the most important quality; to be able to listen without shouting back at people who perhaps have a different view and bring them slowly around, perhaps, to reflecting on that.” - Lelia Doolan, quoted in this excellent piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Great piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on courageous activists Lelia Doolan + Margaretta D’Arcy. Lelia, at 91, is walking from Shannon airport to Dublin to raise awareness of the American military’s mis-use of Shannon. Will our govt find the courage change their “blind-eye” policy? Not likely…😢

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

These boots are made for walking.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

One voice from Iran, heard in Ireland thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social

An Iranian woman’s war diary: 'The news called it carpet bombing'

A young Iranian woman in Karaj, near Tehran, describes the devastating impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran on ordinary people. She sends fully verified daily updates when she can get online. Here, in...

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Really important work from Clodagh Finn in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social - she has this verified diary of a woman living near Tehran of what is happening there as Trump and Israel’s war wreaks havoc. Continued throughout the week: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

An Iranian woman’s diary: ‘It feels as if we are trapped in a massive, lethal video game’

An Irishwoman’s Diary is dedicating this week’s column to ‘M’, who is offering unflinching testimony of the reality of war at a human level, starting today with some extracts, which show the fear, str...

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“These days, there are many voices that go unheard and much suffering that goes unseen...”. Thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for allowing this voice through.

Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Really important work from Clodagh Finn in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social - she has this verified diary of a woman living near Tehran of what is happening there as Trump and Israel’s war wreaks havoc. Continued throughout the week: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Congratulations Jessie Buckley on her big win! Great to see a focus on 17th century women. Check out this article on Irish women alive during the time of Hamnet 💚 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet

Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women

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Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: A woman’s toolkit for change for the next 100 years

As we mark International Women’s Day, a new book looks at how women overcame the barriers and restrictions imposed on them

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