Clodagh Finn: Ireland's first female stockbroker would decry lack of progress

When Oonah Keogh’s stockbroking centenary comes around in 2025, Clodagh Finn hopes we won’t still be having the same conversation around enabling women to work as equals

Oonah Keogh: She was a very intelligent woman, who bitterly regretted having to leave her job according to her granddaughter Katushka Giltsoff.

Sat, 03 Jun, 2023 - 01:46

Clodagh Finn

Clodagh Finn is a journalist, writer and collector of stories. Her recent book, The Irish in the Resistance, co-authored with John Morgan, shines a light on the forgotten contributions of the Irish who resisted Hitler during WW2.

If she were alive today, Oonah Keogh, the first woman to stand on the floor of the Dublin Stock Exchange almost a century ago, would find it hard to believe that we are still talking about gender equality.

“She’d be so disappointed,” her granddaughter Katushka Giltsoff says. “I can’t believe that 100 years later we are still having this discussion.”