At this time of year, I often think of Mary Gorman, a 17-year-old farm servant from Ardfert, Co Kerry, whose life was upended by what she saw in the early hours of Good Friday morning in 1916.

Fiona Kennedy celebrates strong and independent women in her new work 'Natural Women', inspired by tales of the Irish 'pirate queen' Anne Bonny and even Fiona's mother, Aileen, writes Clodagh Finn

Mary Elmes might be remembered as the woman who saved Jewish people from Nazi extermination camps, but in her lifetime she was much better known as Miss Mary of the camps and tent villages.

It’s an interesting day, poised as we are between International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day tomorrow. One of yesterday’s many triumphs was the unveiling of not one, but two statues of women at Belfast City Hall.

Whatever about the legal and long-term implications of putting the term ‘durable relationships’ into the Irish Constitution, is there any formulation of words more likely to deaden the thrill of romance? It takes all the danger out of a ...

What’s the point of making strides in the 21st century if new technology is pulling us back into the 1950s?

It’s the little things, isn’t it? I remember feeling almost giddy when I found my mother’s recipe for cherry and walnut cake tucked into the pages of an old recipe book in a drawer.

A 19th-century drawing by Lady Chatterton has led to the rediscovery of a 4,000-year-old prehistoric tomb thought to have been destroyed

The Israeli military is currently killing children at a rate of 100 per day. How many more will die before sport takes a stand?

In 2017, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland commissioned artist Vera Klute to paint a portrait of Ethna Gaffney, its first female professor.