Archive dive reveals how adverts, hardship, culture and community defined daily life in newly independent Ireland

How do you rectify the myriad wrongs and decades-long sin of omission that have been perpetrated against women of the revolutionary period from early 1900s to the Civil War and far beyond?

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us."

Anne Wandesforde, 18th-century countess and mine-owner, is credited with transforming Castlecomer in Co Kilkenny and doing much to contribute to the lives of the people who lived there

An Irishwoman’s Diary is dedicating this week’s column to ‘M’, who is offering unflinching testimony of the reality of war at a human level, starting today with some extracts, which show the fear, stress, and anxiety being experienced by one woman, on the situation and life near Tehran.

Journalist was fearless, resourceful, resilient and often quite brilliant, writes Clodagh Finn

As we mark International Women’s Day, a new book looks at how women overcame the barriers and restrictions imposed on them

Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women

The possibility that the former home of the International Rugby Experience may be converted to a women’s museum is music to the ears of half the population of Ireland, writes Clodagh Finn

Why was the work of one of the few female co-founders of a theatre company, the Globe Theatre Company, not included in the histories of the stage that have been written since?