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

Thanks to the Kilfian Development Association, we know how crucial Sarah McElroy born in its parish was to her husband Sir Alexander Fleming's research, writes Clodagh Finn

The Tile Films - RTÉ production of 'Invasion: The Normans'  provides an interesting insight to the character in Derbforgaill, Ireland's so-called Helen of Troy, developing the roles and political influence of the woman whose life would transform the history of Ireland.