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

The memory of Mary Mulvihill's pioneering work and legacy still burns bright

For decades, the account of Julia ‘Juie’ O’Riordan’s wartime bravery existed only as a family story

Celine Slattery, who died last month aged 96, used to joke she would be only remembered for her bawdy rendition of Patricia the Stripper. For the people of Tralee, she will be remembered for much more than that

Mary Delany was on a creative journey of imagining throughout her 70s and early 80s, two decades that are almost excised from view