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.

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.

Casting light on the early female footballers whose popularity in their own lifetimes challenges the idea that interest in women’s soccer is recent

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.

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 

The recent description of the aftermath of a Harry Styles gig as a “feather boa massacre” brings to mind the fact that our fashion choices have a direct impact on the world we live in