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.

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

Professor Caitríona Beaumont says her memories of her paternal grandmother, Máirín Beaumont, mostly involve sweets.