Trailblazing beours: A feminist history of Cork

Women's historical contributions to Cork's history have long been ignored. A new walking tour around the Rebel City is changing that narrative

A feminist walk of Cork

I grew up believing something rather alarming about Irish history — that it had very little to do with women.

I was led to believe that history happened to women, or closer to the truth, happened somewhere away from them. There were a few exceptions in my history books, mostly depicted through the murkiness of the male gaze, muses like Maud Gonne and Kitty O’Shea, never women celebrated in their own right.