The earl's tenants on his north Kerry estate were eking out a miserable living to pay rents that did not even come close to funding his extravagant lifestyle

We must take note of what survivors have said: be alert to the dangers and be careful about words

Aged 19, Clodagh Finn sat down to write a letter to find out about her birth at St Patrick’s mother and baby home. She didn't know that her mother was living around the corner

Most of us will never be forced into a situation where we have to take on big corporations like Corkwoman Naoise Ryan, but that does not mean that we cannot make a stand.

We have a real chance to shape a new and more equitable world. Let’s hope we grab it with both hands, writes Clodagh Finn

Now that we're all set to become homebirds again, the greatest big-screen TV may well turn out to be our own windows, writes Clodagh Finn.

'How much has changed. How little,' writes Doireann Ní Ghríofa in her award-winning 'A Ghost in the Throat'. That line sharpened a longing for the world to be sung into existence by a female voice

Many years ago, Clodagh Finn wrote a paragraph on what it was like meeting her birth father for the first time, aged 26. She felt at the time that she would not have been able to write any more. Until now

And as we are in this decade of centenaries, let’s fix that lens on 1920 when, 100 years ago next week, Auxiliaries burned out the commercial centre of Cork City in reprisal for an IRA ambush, writes Clodagh Finn

It is astonishing that Belfast-born social reformer and abolitionist Mary Ann McCracken is not a household name, particularly in a year when there has been so much discussion of slavery and its enduring legacy, writes Clodagh Finn