The official opening of the new women’s prison in Limerick last week owes much to a Galway woman who, as the first female deputy governor at Holloway prison in London, led the way on prison reform in the 20th century.

"Spot the ingenious woman” reads the clever caption over a photograph of Dr Sheila Tinney, who is looking decidedly uncomfortable perched, as she is, at the edge of a large group of male mathematicians.

On her way to school, Clodagh Finn used to pass by the former home of Alice Curtayne. Now, Clodagh wishes she had been aware back then of the journalist and international speaker

Why does a luxury hotel in Italy have a fresco which features an Irish nun who was hunted down by Cromwellian forces in the west of Ireland?

First storm of the season introduces the woman after whom it was named, a Cork-born astronomer, writer, and 'mother of popular science' to a wider public

It is impossible to do justice to her life’s work as an educator, trade unionist, environmentalist, heritage activist, strategic planner, and advocate for a better Ireland

A very popular artist in Ireland and abroad, Maeve Taylor recalls painting the Kinsealy home of former Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, and a day in May 1974 when the bombings happened on Talbot Street in Dublin.

It would be such a mistake to remember Mary Ward only as the first road death; she was an artist, a naturalist, an astronomer and 'Ireland’s first lady of the microscope'

There’s a fascinating account of it on the Irish Life and Lore podcast in which Máirín Hughes, who died aged 109 on Tuesday, ensures that the details of her singular life are preserved. And what a life.

Kathleen Behan might be best known as “mother of all the Behans”, but she wore so many hats.