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Clodagh Finn

Clodagh Finn is a journalist, writer and collector of stories. Her recent book, The Irish in the Resistance, co-authored with John Morgan, shines a light on the forgotten contributions of the Irish who resisted Hitler during WW2.

Clodagh Finn: Gertrude Gaffney — intrepid war correspondent and Ireland’s ‘ablest woman journalist’

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

Sat, 14 Mar, 2026

Clodagh Finn: A woman’s toolkit for change for the next 100 years

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

Sat, 07 Mar, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet

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

Sat, 28 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: Women's museum plan is welcome news

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

Fri, 27 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The Irish woman who made ‘Cabaret’ a hit in Ireland long before the Broadway musical

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?

Sat, 21 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The Irishwoman who married the national hero of the Philippines

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

Sat, 14 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: Anna Frances Levins — ‘The most travelled Irishwoman in the world’

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

Sat, 07 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The forgotten miracles of St Brigid — healer, abbess, and charioteer

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

Sat, 31 Jan, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The forgotten Cork woman imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps

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

Sat, 24 Jan, 2026

Clodagh Finn: Radio days — The friendship forged near ‘Jacob’s Ladder’

A chance encounter in 1942 near RTÉ's 'creaking and groaning' lift in the GPO led to a lifelong friendship between two remarkable women, who shared a passion for folklore and food and contributed much to Irish cultural life

Sat, 17 Jan, 2026