Person: Clodagh Finn

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Clodagh Finn
Clodagh Finn: The countess who issued her own coinage to pay her workers
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Clodagh Finn: Gertrude Gaffney — intrepid war correspondent and Ireland’s ‘ablest woman journalist’
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Clodagh Finn: A woman’s toolkit for change for the next 100 years
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Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet
Clodagh Finn: The Irish woman who made ‘Cabaret’ a hit in Ireland long before the Broadway musical
Clodagh Finn: The Irish woman who made ‘Cabaret’ a hit in Ireland long before the Broadway musical
Why was the work of one of the few female co-founders of a theatre company, the Globe Theatre Company, not included in the histories of the stage that have been written since?

Sat, 21 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The Irishwoman who married the national hero of the Philippines
Clodagh Finn: The Irishwoman who married the national hero of the Philippines
There are two things that we can say without any doubt about Josephine Bracken. She was both legitimate and 'fully Irish'

Sat, 14 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: Anna Frances Levins — ‘The most travelled Irishwoman in the world’
Clodagh Finn: Anna Frances Levins — ‘The most travelled Irishwoman in the world’
March 21 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Anna Frances Levins, writes Clodagh Finn

Sat, 07 Feb, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The forgotten miracles of St Brigid — healer, abbess, and charioteer
Clodagh Finn: The forgotten miracles of St Brigid — healer, abbess, and charioteer
Whatever you are doing, I think it safe to say that the whole country will rejoice in the Brigidine bank holiday, introduced in 2023

Sat, 31 Jan, 2026

Clodagh Finn: The forgotten Cork woman imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps
Clodagh Finn: The forgotten Cork woman imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps
New archival discoveries reveal the story of a Cork woman held in Ravensbrück, and why remembering her matters today

Sat, 24 Jan, 2026

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Clodagh Finn: Let’s repeat the ‘storytelling census’ of the 1930s
The State should take inspiration from Ruth Medjber's 365-day 'Sin Scéal Eile' project and revive the Irish Folklore Commission's schools' collection now hosted on duchas.ie

Sat, 03 Jan, 2026

Taylor And Burton
Clodagh Finn: You can close a pub, but you can’t close what it gave a place
From Blackrock to Youghal, Irish pub names hold forgotten stories of love, loss, community — and why their passing still matters

Sat, 27 Dec, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Hark! An overlooked Aladdin’s Cave of festive entertainment
Clodagh Finn: Hark! An overlooked Aladdin’s Cave of festive entertainment
At Christmas, people often binge-watch Netflix or stockpile books, but there is a wonderful array of digital archives to be enjoyed too

Sat, 20 Dec, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Remembering the artist who illustrated Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
Clodagh Finn: Remembering the artist who illustrated Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
The Herzog Park debacle has brought the names of Irish female artists back into the spotlight

Sat, 13 Dec, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Women on Walls — the art of challenging the status quo
Clodagh Finn: Women on Walls — the art of challenging the status quo
An event happened on Thursday at UCC that gives us real cause for celebration, writes Clodagh Finn

Sat, 29 Nov, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Remembering the first female envoy who paved the way in foreign affairs
Clodagh Finn: Remembering the first female envoy who paved the way in foreign affairs
Cork-born Josephine McNeill became the first Irish woman to head a diplomatic mission abroad in 1949

Sun, 23 Nov, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Amelia Curran, the Irish painter who immortalised poet Shelley
Clodagh Finn: Amelia Curran, the Irish painter who immortalised poet Shelley
If Amelia Curran’s work was later forgotten, it was celebrated in her lifetime

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Imagine a Church in which Sr Stan had been a bishop
Clodagh Finn: Imagine a Church in which Sr Stan had been a bishop
It is time that the work of women who improved so many people’s lives is at least acknowledged in the hierarchy of the Church they served

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Clodagh Finn: In the footsteps of Irish secret agent Maureen O’Sullivan
Clodagh Finn: In the footsteps of Irish secret agent Maureen O’Sullivan
Maureen Patricia O’Sullivan was one of the most effective secret agents in France during World War II

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025

Clodagh Finn: The silver tea set that tells story of Irish marriage bar
Clodagh Finn: The silver tea set that tells story of Irish marriage bar
Mary Staunton's experience was shared by so many other women who felt shut out of public life during the five decades the marriage bar was in force

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025

Clodagh Finn: An ode to Hyacinth Bucket and the radiant art of growing old
Clodagh Finn: An ode to Hyacinth Bucket and the radiant art of growing old
In the real world, older people lead full and enriching lives but that hasn’t quite translated into fiction yet

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

Clodagh Finn: The politics of handbags, with all its glorious baggage
Clodagh Finn: The politics of handbags, with all its glorious baggage
The handbag of Maria Steen, who didn't manage to get enough nominations to run for the presidency, reminds Clodagh Finn of the controversial term 'handbagging' that had been used to insult other women in politics

Sat, 04 Oct, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Great Irish wives, the club with so many overlooked members
Clodagh Finn: Great Irish wives, the club with so many overlooked members
O’Brien Press has finally published a non-fiction version of he lives of 10 women overshadowed by their famous husbands

Sun, 21 Sep, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Funerals are much more about life than death
Clodagh Finn: Funerals are much more about life than death
Strange as it may sound, there is something very uplifting about coming together to celebrate a life well lived

Sat, 13 Sep, 2025

Clodagh Finn: If only we had hospital builder Madam Steevens in today's world
Clodagh Finn: If only we had hospital builder Madam Steevens in today's world
The indefatigable Grizelda Steevens managed to get Ireland’s first public hospital up and running in 1733

Sat, 06 Sep, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Let’s back campaign for public tribute to Mary Jane Irwin
Clodagh Finn: Let’s back campaign for public tribute to Mary Jane Irwin
If a visiting monkey has a place in the streetscape, Mary Jane Irwin, as she was when she lived in Clonakilty, certainly deserves ones too

Sat, 30 Aug, 2025

Brendan Gleeson launches Bewley's Big Coffee Morning
Clodagh Finn: Give the arts a sporting chance with a daily slot on Six One News
Now’s your chance to speak up for the culture-makers before a September 5 deadline

Sat, 23 Aug, 2025

Clodagh Finn: The woman who took the last known photo of Michael Collins
Clodagh Finn: The woman who took the last known photo of Michael Collins
Agnes Hurley also reportedly was in possession of Michael Collins's blood-stained shirt collar from the ambush

Sat, 16 Aug, 2025

Clodagh Finn: It’s not the Hunger Games, it’s not Miss America — it’s our weird, beloved Rose of Tralee
Clodagh Finn: It’s not the Hunger Games, it’s not Miss America — it’s our weird, beloved Rose of Tralee
Tralee native Clodagh Finn reflects on the contradictions, criticisms and quiet joys of Ireland’s most divisive cultural celebration

Sun, 03 Aug, 2025

Maeve Kyle
Clodagh Finn: They called Maeve Kyle a disgrace to motherhood — then she became an Irish Olympic icon
Maeve Kyle broke rules, records, and expectations — blazing a trail from Kilkenny to Tokyo across five decades of Irish sport

Sat, 26 Jul, 2025

Clodagh Finn: The ‘We Do Not Care’ club is striking a powerful chord with menopausal women
Clodagh Finn: The ‘We Do Not Care’ club is striking a powerful chord with menopausal women
One straight-talking woman has given a voice to many who have felt silenced in a world that minimised the impact of menopause

Sat, 19 Jul, 2025

Clodagh Finn: The Irish tennis ace you've probably never heard of
Clodagh Finn: The Irish tennis ace you've probably never heard of
As one of the world’s most famous tournaments draws to a close today, meet this one-time finalist and greatly overlooked tennis great

Sun, 13 Jul, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Carmel Snow, the Irish Anna Wintour who reshaped US fashion
Clodagh Finn: Carmel Snow, the Irish Anna Wintour who reshaped US fashion
Her vision was an immediate success. She took over Harper’s Bazaar in 1935, quickly tripling the magzine's circulation

Sat, 05 Jul, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Lessons to save us from reinventing the wheel in the fight for equality
Clodagh Finn: Lessons to save us from reinventing the wheel in the fight for equality
A book of essays on what happened after the famous contraceptive train from Dublin to Belfast in 1971 shows the need to keep an eye on the history books to see the progress that has been made

Sat, 28 Jun, 2025

Clodagh Finn: A tale of two extraordinary ‘ordinary’ grandmothers
Clodagh Finn: A tale of two extraordinary ‘ordinary’ grandmothers
Evictions over a two-week period in June 1887 generated international headlines, and widespread sympathy for tenants

Sat, 14 Jun, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Restoring some honour to Honour Bright, 100 years on
Clodagh Finn: Restoring some honour to Honour Bright, 100 years on
Lizzie O’Neill’s murder shocked the State, and her reputation was left in shreds

Sat, 07 Jun, 2025

Clodagh Finn: An invite to rediscover the female writers of Kerry
Clodagh Finn: An invite to rediscover the female writers of Kerry
Strap in for a rapid-fire tour of an exhibition that casts off the wilful forgetfulness of centuries

Sat, 31 May, 2025

Clodagh Finn: An unflinching study of a warts-and-all ‘hero’
Clodagh Finn: An unflinching study of a warts-and-all ‘hero’
Lin Rose Clark teases out the political and historical and writes the women back into the story

Sat, 24 May, 2025

Clodagh Finn: The ‘modern Cinderella’ who made her mark behind Iron Curtain
Clodagh Finn: The ‘modern Cinderella’ who made her mark behind Iron Curtain
Whatever happened to this young woman who stepped into a fairytale story all those decades ago?

Sat, 17 May, 2025

Clodagh Finn: How a true pioneer emerged from the shadows
Clodagh Finn: How a true pioneer emerged from the shadows
Her life and work was the very embodiment of feminism yet she vehemently denied being a feminist

Sat, 10 May, 2025

Clodagh Finn: How Oonah Keogh made history on the Dublin Stock Exchange in 1925
Clodagh Finn: How Oonah Keogh made history on the Dublin Stock Exchange in 1925
A century after she broke into an all-male world, Oonah Keogh’s quiet revolution on the trading floor is remembered

Sat, 03 May, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Lessons in the extraordinary power of forgiveness
Clodagh Finn: Lessons in the extraordinary power of forgiveness
Una O’Higgins O’Malley was a woman nearing 60, with a long record of peace activism, when she discovered the names of the men responsible for killing her father

Sat, 19 Apr, 2025

Clodagh Finn: The ‘twin-souls’ who brought modern art to Ireland
Clodagh Finn: The ‘twin-souls’ who brought modern art to Ireland
As the National Gallery of Ireland opens its exhibition, Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, The Art of Friendship, Clodagh Finn examines how the artists' tenacity overcame the art world's initial merciless criticism so that they became 'champions, teachers, collectors, donors, organisers and supporters of other artists' in the modern art scene in Ireland

Sat, 12 Apr, 2025

Maud MacBride
Clodagh Finn: Mother’s Day Gaza vigil highlights Irish discomfort with female protest and dissent
The treatment of Gaza protesters outside the Dáil shows how female dissent is still met with disproportionate force

Sat, 05 Apr, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Walking women back into the fabric of our cities
Clodagh Finn: Walking women back into the fabric of our cities
Feminist walks in Cork are reclaiming the hidden stories of Irish women, challenging inequality, and reshaping how we see history

Sat, 15 Mar, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Boeing crash victims' families still fighting for truth and justice
S Clodagh Finn: Boeing crash victims' families still fighting for truth and justice
As Micheál Martin meets Donald Trump, families of Boeing crash victims demand justice. Will the Taoiseach push for accountability?

Sat, 08 Mar, 2025

Clodagh Finn: Meet Josie MacAvin — Ireland’s unsung Oscar-winning set designer
Clodagh Finn: Meet Josie MacAvin — Ireland’s unsung Oscar-winning set designer
Josie MacAvin, Ireland’s only Oscar and Emmy-winning set designer, left a legacy now proudly displayed at the Irish Film Institute

Sat, 01 Mar, 2025

Donald Trump
Clodagh Finn: Why Elon Musk bringing his child to work is deeply disquieting
Elon Musk’s viral White House moment reveals deep inequalities in work-life balance and parental privilege

Sat, 22 Feb, 2025

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Clodagh Finn: A hymn to aunts, unheralded superpowers
These women did incredible things. They worked, they raised families, they challenged the status quo or, better still, they showed us how to make the most of living within it

Sat, 15 Feb, 2025

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