This Black History month, recall Isabel Jennings, the secretary of the Cork Ladies' Anti-slavery Society and lifelong friend of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Irishwoman's Diary @Irish_examiner #Speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Clodagh Finn: Isabel Jennings, the Cork anti-slavery campaigner and friend of abolitionist Frederick Douglass

The secretary of the Cork Ladies’ Anti-Slavery society was described as the 'first female confidante' of Frederick Douglass with whom she corresponded for the rest of their lives after his visit to Co...

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For decades, Teresa Deevy's work was stored in a suitcase under a bed. Now the plays of a woman described as 'the Irish Chekhov' are inspiring a new generation. Irishwoman's Diary @Irish_examiner #Speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: Teresa Deevy refused to let deafness silence her. Now Ireland is listening again

The Waterford playwright’s work is enjoying a remarkable revival through theatre, scholarship and a return to Ireland’s school curriculum

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Anne Devlin: honouring the woman behind the myth on the 175th anniversary of her death. Irishwoman's Diary in today's Irish Examiner #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Clodagh Finn: Anne Devlin was never just Robert Emmet’s housekeeper. It’s time we told her story

A new children’s book and the work of historian Mícheál Ó Doibhilín are helping restore Anne Devlin’s place in Irish history

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As tributes continue to pour in for campaigning journalist Frank McDonald, I went back to look at one written by him about the environmental campaigner Deirdre Kelly who inspired a generation. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Clodagh Finn: Deirdre Kelly, the environmental campaigner who inspired a generation

An obituary this week about Frank McDonald reminds Clodagh Finn of another environmental campaigner, Deirdre Kelly, who believed passionately that urban design should serve people and communities firs...

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I was so moved to hear Aoife Scott and Roisin O's exquisite rendition of 'Grace' at Croke Park last night, not least because a portrait of the woman who inspired it has been recently acquired by the National Gallery of Ireland. Irishwoman's Diary www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Clodagh Finn: The remarkable story of Grace Gifford, the artist who kept going — and skating

A newly acquired William Orpen portrait captures the humour and spirit of an artist whose life was shaped by Ireland’s turbulent history

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The fun we had flapping at the Pav in Cork last night! Here is the magnificent @caitbeaumont.bsky.social getting into the spirit of the 1920s. Read posts below for more on a new book that shines a light on that most exotic but forgotten creature - the Irish Flapper!

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Much fun 🥳 was had at the Pav (beautifully restored 1920s venue in Cork) last night to launch the #FlappersJazzAgeIreland book. Great speech by the one & only @clodaghfinn.bsky.social highlighting the importance of joy as a feeling in historical work #historyemotions. @whaireland.bsky.social

"In the 1920s, bishops, north and south, stood sentinel against the moral dangers of the jazz-dancing, cigarette-smoking, short-dress-wearing modern woman." Flappers and the Jazz Age: edited by Eileen Hogan and Louise Ryan @clodaghfinn.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: The Irish flappers who defied the bishops to bring the Jazz Age to Ireland

A new book opens the most surprising — and utterly delightful — window on the rich social and cultural life of Irish women in the early part of the 20th-century... to the utter disgust of many (male) ...

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Too often the history of women is the history of hardship and oppression but, joy of joys, here is an account of fun: the Irish flappers who defied the bishops to bring the Jazz Age to Ireland. 'Flappers & the Jazz Age in Ireland' launches in Cork next Friday. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Clodagh Finn: The Irish flappers who gave bishops sleepless nights by embracing jazz and fashion

New research reveals how Irish women embraced jazz, fashion and dance despite bishops’ warnings about the supposed dangers of modernity

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Lovely review by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social today for new @manchesterup.bsky.social edited collection 'Flappers & the Jazz Age in Ireland' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181787/. Looking forward to launch in Cork next Friday 🥳. @whaireland.bsky.social #20s30s.

Clodagh Finn: The Irish flappers who gave bishops sleepless nights by embracing jazz and fashion

New research reveals how Irish women embraced jazz, fashion and dance despite bishops’ warnings about the supposed dangers of modernity

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Roshana D set up a secret school for girls in Afghanistan but fled to Pakistan when she was discovered by the Taliban. She is now in hiding - but still spoke to Irishwoman's Diary to ensure that women's voices are heard. Such courage 🙏 #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Clodagh Finn: A window into life of an Afghan woman who set up a secret school for girls and now lives in hiding

Roshana Dadgar set up a secret school in Afghanistan to educate young girls. She was later forced to flee to Pakistan and now lives under the threat of deportation, writes Clodagh Finn

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I've been haunted by the words of former Cumann na mBan women who led lives of quiet desperation in the state they helped to build. @lloislanel.bsky.social has done eye-opening & vital research laying bare the hardship faced by single women in Cork. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... #SpeirGorm

Clodagh Finn: The Cork women who helped build the State were left with almost nothing

New research uncovers the poverty, neglect and quiet desperation faced by Cork women who fought during Ireland’s revolutionary period

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It doesn’t matter that my people are not from Tralee. Spiorad Ban Chiarraí stands for all defiant women; for me, my female ancestors and for our children and future generations. I will go to see Elizabeth O’Kanes creation. I may cry. Great storytelling, as ever @clodaghfinn.bsky.social #speirgorm

Clodagh Finn: A lesson in how to reawaken the spirit of our revolutionary women

Clodagh Finn looks at Kerry’s revolutionary women whose spirit has been reawakened and honoured in a majestic bronze sculpture that stands 2.5m tall in the centre of Tralee Town Park

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A majestic bronze sculpture in Tralee finally honours the unheralded women of the revolutionary period. #MonumentalWomen #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: A lesson in how to reawaken the spirit of our revolutionary women

Clodagh Finn looks at Kerry’s revolutionary women whose spirit has been reawakened and honoured in a majestic bronze sculpture that stands 2.5m tall in the centre of Tralee Town Park

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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

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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 · 5mo 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