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

UCC is asking the public to help choose four women, alive or dead, to be featured in a new series of commissioned portraits called Women on Walls

When library assistant Mary Vaughan saw an ad for archery lessons in 1980, she thought she’d give it a try

Her story reads like fiction — a thriller even — just as the many words used to describe her don’t seem to fit together: nun, lesbian, teacher, militant, law-changer, even 'home-wrecker'

For many years, it felt as if the world didn’t quite know what to do with a woman without children