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Clodagh Finn: Meet the 95-year-old artist who modelled for ‘Mother Ireland’ statue
Clodagh Finn: Meet the 95-year-old artist who modelled for ‘Mother Ireland’ statue
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.

Sat, 23 Sep, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Remember Mary Ward’s life as well as her record-setting death
Clodagh Finn: Remember Mary Ward’s life as well as her record-setting death
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'

Sat, 16 Sep, 2023

A history of Ireland through the eyes of its oldest woman — Máirín Hughes
A history of Ireland through the eyes of its oldest woman — Máirín Hughes
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.

Sat, 09 Sep, 2023

Kathleen Behan, Mother Of Irish Play Writer Brendan Behan, Smoking In London On August 1959
Clodagh Finn: Mother of all the Behans spoke of her ‘Me Too’ moment
Kathleen Behan might be best known as “mother of all the Behans”, but she wore so many hats.

Sat, 19 Aug, 2023

Clodagh Finn: French girl guides’ miracle crash-landing on a Wicklow mountain
Clodagh Finn: French girl guides’ miracle crash-landing on a Wicklow mountain
Seventy-seven years ago this weekend, a group of French girl guides were on their way by plane from Paris to a holiday camp in Ireland after an invitation from their Irish counterparts. The old military plane crashed into a mountain in Wicklow, and a book recounts how they all survived

Sat, 12 Aug, 2023

Clodagh Finn: The secret lives of our revolutionary grannies
S Clodagh Finn: The secret lives of our revolutionary grannies
Professor CaitrĂ­ona Beaumont says her memories of her paternal grandmother, MĂĄirĂ­n Beaumont, mostly involve sweets.

Sat, 05 Aug, 2023

Clodagh Finn: The Corkwoman who became top economic thinker in US
Clodagh Finn: The Corkwoman who became top economic thinker in US
CORKWOMAN Leonora Barry was one of the most important economic thinkers of Gilded Age America. And is now one of the most forgotten. At least that is how historian and author Dr Eli Cook frames it.

Sat, 29 Jul, 2023

Australia v Republic of Ireland - FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 - Group B - Sydney Football Stadium
Clodagh Finn: Here’s to the first female footballers who led the way
Casting light on the early female footballers whose popularity in their own lifetimes challenges the idea that interest in women’s soccer is recent

Sat, 22 Jul, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Forget flip-flops, remember how we treated mother and baby home survivors
Clodagh Finn: Forget flip-flops, remember how we treated mother and baby home survivors
Here are some of my recent diary entries.  One: RTÉ spent nearly €5,000 on party flip-flops. Two: The minimum payment for women who spent time in mother and baby ‘homes’ is €5,000.

Sun, 16 Jul, 2023

Clodagh Finn: The ‘Irish matchgirl’ who helped to change history
Clodagh Finn: The ‘Irish matchgirl’ who helped to change history
Mary Driscoll was just 14 years old when she began helping women in London fight against appalling working conditions and serious health risks posed by the use of phosphorous in factories 

Sat, 08 Jul, 2023

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