Aideen O'Connor was happy to present the stage version of the sweet Irish girl, but she embraced all that the experience could offer her

Known as the ‘bhean ghlúine’ (literally woman of the knee) or ‘handy woman', she went out at all hours, in all weather, to support women through the precarious business of childbirth

If you have time to spare, venture down the utterly enchanting digital rabbit-hole which has been brought to the public courtesy of the Irish Film Institute Archive

It is time to put down the body-image measuring stick.

Catherine Merrigan captures the global importance and uniqueness of Skellig Michael, and illustrates how lonely living in such a remote place can be

So many lessons come down to us from the past, if only we could hear, not to mind heed them.

If it were a film, the publicity might include an unlikely collection of taglines about a nun running barefoot from a convent in the dead of night, a charge of lunacy, a court case to prove the woman sane and her subsequent court case against a bishop

It is heartening to see that Nell — she was so well-known that the country was on first-name terms with her — has prompted so many warm tributes over the last few days

It’s a stain on all of our services that Lavinia Kerwick’s experience is actually true

She set up the country's first Magdalen Asylum in 1765 as a refuge 'of assistance and reward' after campaigning for infant healthcare and introducing carpet weaving to Ireland. Kerry woman Arabella Denny was the product of an eccentric father and a cultivated mother