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The Wild Gees

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On a mission to seek out women's histories, prehistories and mythologies and share our adventures. Interested in under-told stories of all women 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Check out our blog: http://thewildgees.com/

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Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · last mo.

‘These are her people’: Friends and neighbours remember ‘Queen of the Liberties’ Brenda Fricker The street-lined crowd claps as the funeral cortege passes. Inside the church the service is simple but beautiful www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

‘These are her people’: Friends and neighbours remember ‘Queen of the Liberties’ Brenda Fricker

The street-lined crowd claps as the funeral cortege passes. Inside the church the service is simple but beautiful

irishtimes.com

Feargal McKay@cycologies.com · last mo.

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...

irishexaminer.com

Clodagh Tait@clodaghtait.bsky.social · last mo.

The time Walt Disney arrived at the Irish Folklore Commission proposing a film on leprechauns, and the folklorists tried to divert him towards something more worthy like The Táin (Bríd Mahon, While green grass grows)

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Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · last mo.

Every few years a social media post suggests, or invites suggestions, for the casting of a Táin adaptation. The success of that other mythological movie (and the star power of several Irish actors) has made this slightly more likely. So who should play who?

Gillian Murphy@gillianmurphy.bsky.social · last mo.

New blog for The Women's Library at 100 by Grace Parker, student at LSBU on environmental activism and the Women's Institutes. Thank you Grace! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

Women and environmental activism: the National Federation of Women’s Institutes - LSE History

The WI is the UK's largest women's organisation, and has been campaigning to protect the environment since the 1920s. Grace Parker explored its archives at The Women's Library, to find out more.

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Tuatha@tuatha.ie · last mo.

Today's newsletter also has a link to join us for this Wednesday's Tuatha Talk with the brilliant Mary Cahill on the Ballinesker Hoard. Only a handful of tickets left if you fancy joining us in Bronze Age Ireland! www.tuatha.ie/newsletter/

The golden artefacts that make up the Ballinesker Hoard
History Ireland Magazine@historyireland.bsky.social · last mo.

Given the week that's in it, a good time for a Mayo focus! In this piece by Elizabeth Malcolm, Captain Boycott is taken on by the women of Mayo. historyireland.com/captain-boyc...

CAPTAIN BOYCOTT V. THE WOMEN OF MAYO - History Ireland

By Elizabeth Malcolm The boycott in late 1880 of Captain Charles Boycott, the English-born agent for the earl of Erne’s Lough Mask estate in south-east Mayo, is still remembered today mainly because i...

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Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · last mo.

Solidarity with the queer community in Berlin tonight as thier pride parade is cancelled following a ramming incident. Watch who speaks up in support of them, and who chooses to remain silent, and vote accordingly. We all habe to choose our side, and I know which one I'm on.

Infinite Women@infinite-women.com · last mo.

You can read more about her and listen to my podcast episode on her at www.infinite-women.com/women/rosali... Hers is also one of hundreds of women's stories in my book Uncredited: www.infinite-women.com/books/

Rosalind Franklin - Infinite Women

Chemist whose x-ray diffraction studies provided crucial clues to the structure of DNA and quantitatively confirmed the Watson-Crick DNA model

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Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · last mo.

Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure. Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. She was born #OTD in 1920. #WomenInSTEM 🧵

A classic, black-and-white studio portrait of a young Dr. Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), the pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose data was foundational to uncovering the double-helix structure of DNA. Captured from the chest up, Franklin sits in a three-quarter pose, her body angled slightly toward the left while her gaze directly meets the viewer. She possesses a calm, intelligent, and subtly enigmatic expression, with her dark hair neatly parted on the side and styled back away from her face. She wears a dark, long-sleeved button-down blouse with structured shoulders, a sharp collar, and fabric buttons down the front placket. The background is a soft, minimalist studio gradient of neutral grays that creates a gentle vignette effect, casting a soft light on the right side of her face. The composition is clean, formal, and balanced, evoking a mood of quiet determination, dignity, and brilliant intellectual poise characteristic of the early 20th-century scientific vanguard.