It might not be the time to extol the virtues of a fuel-inefficient luxury car, but Letitia Overend, philanthropist, farmer, and amateur mechanic, couldn’t say enough for the Rolls Royce she bought in 1927 for £1,700.

Infamy and Bonaparte are words that often appear in the same sentence, as we have been reminded by the release of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, a biopic of the ‘infamous’ emperor.

When Monica de Wichfeld (of Derrylin in Co Fermanagh, among many other places) was condemned to death on May 13, 1944, for her role in the Danish resistance, there was an audible gasp in the room.

On May 10, 1916, Kathleen Lynn, pioneering doctor, independent thinker and political activist, wrote in her diary: “Mtjoy [Mountjoy prison] clean & comfortable, but I’d give £10,000 for Kilmainham and Madel[e]ine”.

Sometimes it is the tiniest detail that stays with you.

The official opening of the new women’s prison in Limerick last week owes much to a Galway woman who, as the first female deputy governor at Holloway prison in London, led the way on prison reform in the 20th century.

"Spot the ingenious woman” reads the clever caption over a photograph of Dr Sheila Tinney, who is looking decidedly uncomfortable perched, as she is, at the edge of a large group of male mathematicians.

On her way to school, Clodagh Finn used to pass by the former home of Alice Curtayne. Now, Clodagh wishes she had been aware back then of the journalist and international speaker

Why does a luxury hotel in Italy have a fresco which features an Irish nun who was hunted down by Cromwellian forces in the west of Ireland?

First storm of the season introduces the woman after whom it was named, a Cork-born astronomer, writer, and 'mother of popular science' to a wider public