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

As the Tour de France Femmes begins, Clodagh Finn revisits the extraordinary yet overlooked story of Mayo cycling pioneer Millie Robinson

In light of the selfless group of placard-carrying activists marching to save Bessborough from developers, it is heartening to see previous women's protest movements wrought change that was unimaginable at the time

There is so much more to say about the Cummins sisters from Cork city 

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

Lydia Darragh was a pacifist and already led a very busy life in her adopted city of Philadelphia where she worked as a well-respected midwife, wet nurse, mortician, and hat-maker

Two women from the same extended family lived lives that could not have been more different — one a celebrated scientist, the other who lived in poverty and suffered great personal loss, yet both are fascinating women whose stories deserve to be told

It was seeing Robert Flaherty’s 1934 film 'Man of Aran' that changed the direction of Elizabeth Rivers's life

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

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 nationally and internationally