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, stress, and anxiety being experienced by one woman, on the situation and life near Tehran.

Journalist was fearless, resourceful, resilient and often quite brilliant, writes Clodagh Finn

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

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

The possibility that the former home of the International Rugby Experience may be converted to a women’s museum is music to the ears of half the population of Ireland, writes Clodagh Finn

Why was the work of one of the few female co-founders of a theatre company, the Globe Theatre Company, not included in the histories of the stage that have been written since?

There are two things that we can say without any doubt about Josephine Bracken. She was both legitimate and 'fully Irish'

March 21 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Anna Frances Levins, writes Clodagh Finn

Whatever you are doing, I think it safe to say that the whole country will rejoice in the Brigidine bank holiday, introduced in 2023

New archival discoveries reveal the story of a Cork woman held in Ravensbrück, and why remembering her matters today