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

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

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

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