Clodagh Finn

Margaret Hamilton Reid had one regret in life - that she never drove a Formula 1. This week's Irishwoman's Diary on the first woman to head a publicly quoted Irish company, Switzer's department store in Dublin. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Thank you to Cork city library for hosting my exhibition “Cork Afterlives: Single Women and the New Irish State”. The wonderful @clodaghfinn.bsky.social was very kind about the research on which it is based in the Irish Examiner: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

A great read by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

This Black History month, recall Isabel Jennings, the secretary of the Cork Ladies' Anti-slavery Society and lifelong friend of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Irishwoman's Diary @Irish_examiner #Speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

For decades, Teresa Deevy's work was stored in a suitcase under a bed. Now the plays of a woman described as 'the Irish Chekhov' are inspiring a new generation. Irishwoman's Diary @Irish_examiner #Speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Anne Devlin: honouring the woman behind the myth on the 175th anniversary of her death. Irishwoman's Diary in today's Irish Examiner #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

As tributes continue to pour in for campaigning journalist Frank McDonald, I went back to look at one written by him about the environmental campaigner Deirdre Kelly who inspired a generation. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

I was so moved to hear Aoife Scott and Roisin O's exquisite rendition of 'Grace' at Croke Park last night, not least because a portrait of the woman who inspired it has been recently acquired by the National Gallery of Ireland. Irishwoman's Diary www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

The fun we had flapping at the Pav in Cork last night! Here is the magnificent @caitbeaumont.bsky.social getting into the spirit of the 1920s. Read posts below for more on a new book that shines a light on that most exotic but forgotten creature - the Irish Flapper!

"In the 1920s, bishops, north and south, stood sentinel against the moral dangers of the jazz-dancing, cigarette-smoking, short-dress-wearing modern woman." Flappers and the Jazz Age: edited by Eileen Hogan and Louise Ryan @clodaghfinn.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Too often the history of women is the history of hardship and oppression but, joy of joys, here is an account of fun: the Irish flappers who defied the bishops to bring the Jazz Age to Ireland. 'Flappers & the Jazz Age in Ireland' launches in Cork next Friday. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Lovely review by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social today for new @manchesterup.bsky.social edited collection 'Flappers & the Jazz Age in Ireland' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181787/. Looking forward to launch in Cork next Friday 🥳. @whaireland.bsky.social #20s30s.

Roshana D set up a secret school for girls in Afghanistan but fled to Pakistan when she was discovered by the Taliban. She is now in hiding - but still spoke to Irishwoman's Diary to ensure that women's voices are heard. Such courage 🙏 #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

I've been haunted by the words of former Cumann na mBan women who led lives of quiet desperation in the state they helped to build. @lloislanel.bsky.social has done eye-opening & vital research laying bare the hardship faced by single women in Cork. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... #SpeirGorm

It doesn’t matter that my people are not from Tralee. Spiorad Ban Chiarraí stands for all defiant women; for me, my female ancestors and for our children and future generations. I will go to see Elizabeth O’Kanes creation. I may cry. Great storytelling, as ever @clodaghfinn.bsky.social #speirgorm

A majestic bronze sculpture in Tralee finally honours the unheralded women of the revolutionary period. #MonumentalWomen #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

A woman from Mayo won the first Tour de France for women! How is this not common knowledge……oh, yeah cos it’s a woman. 🙄 What an incredible feat! 🚲 ♀️ 🙏 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social column For telling the ♀️stories #SpeirGorm

The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm

Wonderful to see the Kinahan Collection highlighted here in this article about Peadar McArdle's recent book. Peadar worked his way through the extensive diary collection of Henry and Harriette Kinahan, housed here in the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie

The diaries of field geologist Henry Kinahan and his artist wife Harriette paint a vivid picture of science in the 19th century, even though they wrote only 10 or so words a day. See Peader McArdle's illuminating new book. #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Six new eps of the Irishwoman's Diary miniseries with @clodaghfinn.bsky.social - we discussed philanthropist Arabella Denny; lesbian nun Bridget Coll; Olympian Maeve Kyle; actress Genevieve Lyons; war reporter Gertrude Gaffney & Countess Joan Fitzgerald www.irishexaminer.com/podcasts/podcast-dos

Today, on the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, I will be thinking of Lydia Darragh, the Irish Quaker who went through enemy lines to warn George Washington of a planned ambush by the British. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Once again obsessed with @deshocks.bsky.social amazing podcast series: An Irish Woman's Diary. @clodaghfinn.bsky.social really brings these compelling women to life. Particularly enjoyed hearing about Lady Arabella Denny. Listen immediately!

Enough with the gun toters. Cd we pls have a memorial to our C18th healthcare revolutionary Griselda Steevens, funder & founder of Dublin’s Steevens Hospital in 1733 ‘for the relief & maintenance of curable poor persons’, now home to @hselive.bsky.social. @dermotlacey.bsky.social shorturl.at/d6YfN

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

Any Bray people out there who could help with this? I was delighted to see Philomena Burke, community pharmacist, remembered on Quinsborough Road. I will dig a bit but can anybody tell me anything about her?

As the Giro d'Italia's women's race gets underway today, meet the only woman who ever rode in the men's race. Also, Ireland's cycling pioneers and why they were warned of the dangers of 'bicycle face'. Irishwoman's Diary today @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Kathleen Cuthbert (née Ferguson) is in the roll of honour in The Irish in the Resistance by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social & John Morgan. archives.wartimeni.com/person/kathl... Minor footnote, her husband Prof Norman was one of my statistics lecturers at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

This book is fascinating, inspirational, and sad, too. The picture is of Catherine Crean, of Moore Street in Dublin, who was arrested for helping Allied airmen in Brussels. The Irish in the Resistance: @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and John Morgan ISBN-13: 978-0717191352 Publisher: Gill Books #SpéirGhorm

Exciting news! @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and I had such fun making our podcast mini-series An Irishwoman's Diary that Series Two will be available in June. ICYMI, Series One is available here - you can listen back to all the episodes at this link: www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

This work is the most exciting I've come across for a long time... It is unearthing a chorus of new female voices from the early modern period and giving them wonderful expression. Meet Catherine Strong, the Dung Queen of Ireland in the 1600s. Love it. 🙌

A great Irish artist and illustrator with a quirky sense of humour when required and even available for commissions. Well worth checking out for the saints or sinners in your life.

How do you you mind the legacy of a brilliant woman? @clodaghfinn.bsky.social spills the tea in her @irishexaminer.bsky.social column today. 💚 @rememberingmary.bsky.social #Speirgorm

Check out our latest article on ‘Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in Women’s History: The VOICES Project (Ireland)’! By Lucy McKenna @bamcshane.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social Declan O’Sullivan @drdpatterson.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social voicesproject.ie/impact/digit...

"That to me is the most important quality; to be able to listen without shouting back at people who perhaps have a different view and bring them slowly around, perhaps, to reflecting on that.” - Lelia Doolan, quoted in this excellent piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Great piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on courageous activists Lelia Doolan + Margaretta D’Arcy. Lelia, at 91, is walking from Shannon airport to Dublin to raise awareness of the American military’s mis-use of Shannon. Will our govt find the courage change their “blind-eye” policy? Not likely…😢

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

One voice from Iran, heard in Ireland thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Really important work from Clodagh Finn in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social - she has this verified diary of a woman living near Tehran of what is happening there as Trump and Israel’s war wreaks havoc. Continued throughout the week: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

“These days, there are many voices that go unheard and much suffering that goes unseen...”. Thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for allowing this voice through.

Congratulations Jessie Buckley on her big win! Great to see a focus on 17th century women. Check out this article on Irish women alive during the time of Hamnet 💚 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...