Person: Clodagh Finn

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Clodagh Finn: When Napoleon’s niece ‘ruled’ Waterford
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Clodagh Finn: The Irishwoman who led Danish resistance to the Nazis
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Clodagh Finn: Lynn diaries reveal private life of a very public woman
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Clodagh Finn: The dead show us how the past is always present
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SClodagh Finn: The Irish woman who led reform at London's Holloway Prison
Clodagh Finn: A lesson in how to tell the story of our own ingenuity
Clodagh Finn: A lesson in how to tell the story of our own ingenuity
"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.

Sat, 21 Oct, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Vivid imagination and keen intellect of Tralee-born journalist Alice Curtayne
Clodagh Finn: Vivid imagination and keen intellect of Tralee-born journalist Alice Curtayne
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

Sun, 15 Oct, 2023

Clodagh Finn: We need to tell the full story about Irish nuns
S Clodagh Finn: We need to tell the full story about Irish nuns
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?

Sun, 08 Oct, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Why Storm Agnes leaves behind a silver lining
Clodagh Finn: Why Storm Agnes leaves behind a silver lining
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

Sat, 30 Sep, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Remember Mary Ward’s life as well as her record-setting death
Clodagh Finn: Remember Mary Ward’s life as well as her record-setting death
It would be such a mistake to remember Mary Ward only as the first road death; she was an artist, a naturalist, an astronomer and 'Ireland’s first lady of the microscope'

Sat, 16 Sep, 2023

Kathleen Behan, Mother Of Irish Play Writer Brendan Behan, Smoking In London On August 1959
Clodagh Finn: Mother of all the Behans spoke of her ‘Me Too’ moment
Kathleen Behan might be best known as “mother of all the Behans”, but she wore so many hats.

Sat, 19 Aug, 2023

Clodagh Finn: French girl guides’ miracle crash-landing on a Wicklow mountain
Clodagh Finn: French girl guides’ miracle crash-landing on a Wicklow mountain
Seventy-seven years ago this weekend, a group of French girl guides were on their way by plane from Paris to a holiday camp in Ireland after an invitation from their Irish counterparts. The old military plane crashed into a mountain in Wicklow, and a book recounts how they all survived

Sat, 12 Aug, 2023

Clodagh Finn: The secret lives of our revolutionary grannies
S Clodagh Finn: The secret lives of our revolutionary grannies
Professor Caitríona Beaumont says her memories of her paternal grandmother, Máirín Beaumont, mostly involve sweets.

Sat, 05 Aug, 2023

Clodagh Finn: The Corkwoman who became top economic thinker in US
Clodagh Finn: The Corkwoman who became top economic thinker in US
CORKWOMAN Leonora Barry was one of the most important economic thinkers of Gilded Age America. And is now one of the most forgotten. At least that is how historian and author Dr Eli Cook frames it.

Sat, 29 Jul, 2023

Australia v Republic of Ireland - FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 - Group B - Sydney Football Stadium
Clodagh Finn: Here’s to the first female footballers who led the way
Casting light on the early female footballers whose popularity in their own lifetimes challenges the idea that interest in women’s soccer is recent

Sat, 22 Jul, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Forget flip-flops, remember how we treated mother and baby home survivors
Clodagh Finn: Forget flip-flops, remember how we treated mother and baby home survivors
Here are some of my recent diary entries.  One: RTÉ spent nearly €5,000 on party flip-flops. Two: The minimum payment for women who spent time in mother and baby ‘homes’ is €5,000.

Sun, 16 Jul, 2023

An international search for the remains of Irish war hero Patrick Sarsfield
An international search for the remains of Irish war hero Patrick Sarsfield
There are reasons to be optimistic that the remains of Irish war hero Patrick Sarsfield will be identified, writes Clodagh Finn

Sat, 08 Jul, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Why Harry Styles’ boa is not a feather in his cap
Clodagh Finn: Why Harry Styles’ boa is not a feather in his cap
The recent description of the aftermath of a Harry Styles gig as a “feather boa massacre” brings to mind the fact that our fashion choices have a direct impact on the world we live in

Sat, 01 Jul, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Blitz diary of an Irish nurse on Thames ambulance boat
Clodagh Finn: Blitz diary of an Irish nurse on Thames ambulance boat
Longford woman logged her experiences of war in a diary found by her relatives after her death

Sat, 24 Jun, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Two tragedies at sea led to two very different responses
Clodagh Finn: Two tragedies at sea led to two very different responses
The story of the loss of the Titan made the news of the sinking fishing trawler of Greece packed with almost 500 people disappear from news feeds

Fri, 23 Jun, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Discovering a Longford woman who was a decorated veteran of three wars
S Clodagh Finn: Discovering a Longford woman who was a decorated veteran of three wars
Longford woman, Aileen Henrietta Moore, couldn't sit idly by during the Spanish Civil War, First World War and Second World War. Here's what she did despite her advanced years

Sun, 18 Jun, 2023

Never leave your drink alone
Clodagh Finn: Don’t just ask for Angela, demand action on abuse
Why put the onus on the person being wronged to take action, rather than call out the wrong-doer? If threatening behaviour is not tolerated in social situations, it won’t be long before it changes — for the better

Sat, 10 Jun, 2023

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

Sat, 03 Jun, 2023

Irish Examiner view: Welcome appointment of negotiator on mother and baby homes redress
Irish Examiner view: Welcome appointment of negotiator on mother and baby homes redress
Religious orders, their leaders, and lay Catholic bodies have effectively been shamed into having the negotiations at all 

Tue, 30 May, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Please stop calling Maud Gonne ‘Yeats’ muse’
Clodagh Finn: Please stop calling Maud Gonne ‘Yeats’ muse’
It always bothers me when a woman is described only in terms of her relationship to the men in her life. Mention the name Maud Gonne, for instance, and someone is bound to add the annoying rider, “muse to poet WB Yeats”.

Sat, 27 May, 2023

Empathy advocate calls for citizens’ assembly on migration
Empathy advocate calls for citizens’ assembly on migration
Professor Pat Dolan says a discussion is needed which can both debunk the myths around migrants, while at the same time give way to a realistic conversation around concerns being raised and the solutions to them, writes Clodagh Finn

Tue, 23 May, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Recalling a glorious nun who was scathing of church
Clodagh Finn: Recalling a glorious nun who was scathing of church
She was opinionated, strong-willed, polarising and self-assured. She was a businesswoman with a gift for raising money. She was a fierce advocate for social justice and regularly criticised 19th-century landlords.

Sat, 20 May, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Where is the Irish Housewives Association when you need it?
Clodagh Finn: Where is the Irish Housewives Association when you need it?
I can’t help thinking that we need the Irish Housewives Association (IHA) now more than ever.

Sat, 13 May, 2023

Clodagh Finn: It’s important to recall Ireland’s female executioner
Clodagh Finn: It’s important to recall Ireland’s female executioner
It might not be the job description you’d like to see recorded for posterity, but Kerry-born Elizabeth Sugrue will always be known as Ireland’s female ‘hangwoman’, or Lady Betty for short.

Sat, 06 May, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Rename library after Trinity’s first female students
Clodagh Finn: Rename library after Trinity’s first female students
OH, the irony. George Salmon, mathematician, arch conservative and one-time provost of Trinity College Dublin, said that women would enter Ireland’s oldest university over his dead body. And that is how it turned out.

Sat, 29 Apr, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Time to celebrate the first Irishwoman to sell books by the million
Clodagh Finn: Time to celebrate the first Irishwoman to sell books by the million
Ethel Lilian Boole, author of the international bestseller 'The Gadfly', was born in Cork, even if the city doesn’t make enough of that glorious connection

Sat, 15 Apr, 2023

Clodagh Finn: The many lives of ‘a giant in Irish tourism’
Clodagh Finn: The many lives of ‘a giant in Irish tourism’
She had a private audience with Pope John XXIII, met the “father of black nationalism” and, as a young businesswoman and single mother, organised Princess Grace’s visit to Ireland, yet few of those things come to mind when Eileen O’Mara Walsh’s name ...

Sat, 08 Apr, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Meet the woman who ran the Mansion House for decades
S Clodagh Finn: Meet the woman who ran the Mansion House for decades
When the lord mayor of Cork, Donal Ó Ceallacháin, called to the Mansion House in Dublin in 1921, Mary O’Sullivan turned him away. She didn’t like the look of him.

Mon, 03 Apr, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Medical pioneer’s fire lit by childhood eviction trauma
Clodagh Finn: Medical pioneer’s fire lit by childhood eviction trauma
Is there any word in Irish history which carries a more visceral charge than ‘eviction’?There are few words that carry a more visceral charge in Irish history than ‘eviction’, other than perhaps, ‘famine’ and ‘emigration’.

Sat, 18 Mar, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Musician and publisher preserved centuries of Irish traditional music
Clodagh Finn: Musician and publisher preserved centuries of Irish traditional music
This St Patrick's Day, let's remember Charlotte Milligan Fox who travelled around Ireland in the early 1900s to record and publish ancient Irish tunes

Sat, 11 Mar, 2023

Clodagh Finn: The women who tried to tunnel out of the ‘Irish Bastille’
Clodagh Finn: The women who tried to tunnel out of the ‘Irish Bastille’
Early female activists endured jail and hunger strikes, but today they face another kind of imprisonment — suspended in the stocks of a no-holds-barred social media

Sat, 04 Mar, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Stamp of approval for the pioneering Thekla Beere
Clodagh Finn: Stamp of approval for the pioneering Thekla Beere
This exceptional woman and trailblazing civil servant deserves to be back in circulation

Sun, 26 Feb, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Diary of an Irishwoman — Honora Burke, the overlooked wife of Patrick Sarsfield
S Clodagh Finn: Diary of an Irishwoman — Honora Burke, the overlooked wife of Patrick Sarsfield
Who knew the past had so much breaking news?The question, asked in a witty tweet from Professor Niamh Stack of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, hits the nail on the head.

Sun, 19 Feb, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Ireland’s singing star who saved lives during Second World War
Clodagh Finn: Ireland’s singing star who saved lives during Second World War
As anti-refugee sentiment is being stoked around the country, is there a better time to remind ourselves of the Irish people who risked their lives to save others?

Sat, 11 Feb, 2023

Clodagh Finn: It’s too late for justice but we can remember Margaret 
Clodagh Finn: It’s too late for justice but we can remember Margaret 
What of all the women who died before that date, such as Margaret Mary McCarthy? I would like to see a database where her story is recorded. It’s the very least we can do for her

Sat, 04 Feb, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Let Brigid be the cue for all female saints to come marching in
Clodagh Finn: Let Brigid be the cue for all female saints to come marching in
Influential founder of the Church of Kildare will take centre stage on the first public holiday in her honour

Sat, 28 Jan, 2023

Clodagh Finn: It’s about time we celebrated our elder female icons
Clodagh Finn: It’s about time we celebrated our elder female icons
I’M compiling a new list of female ‘icons’.

Sat, 21 Jan, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Wartime love story of Tipperary soldier and Harlem nurse
Clodagh Finn: Wartime love story of Tipperary soldier and Harlem nurse
He was an ambulance driver and International Brigades volunteer from Co Tipperary.

Sat, 07 Jan, 2023

Clodagh Finn: Recalling Sarah Purser and her towering ambition
Clodagh Finn: Recalling Sarah Purser and her towering ambition
Sarah Purser, artist and founder of An Túr Gloine (the Tower of Glass), the stained-glass cooperative which opened its doors 120 years ago on New Year’s Day, still has the power to inspire — and distract.

Sat, 31 Dec, 2022

Clodagh Finn: Hook, line, and trinket — the women who scaled liners to sell souvenirs
S Clodagh Finn: Hook, line, and trinket — the women who scaled liners to sell souvenirs
Capturing a fascinating slice of social history before the trail goes cold

Sun, 25 Dec, 2022

Clodagh Finn: The Limerick woman who married into the real von Trapp singing family
Clodagh Finn: The Limerick woman who married into the real von Trapp singing family
THE story of how Constance O’Mara, of the Limerick bacon-factory family, came to marry an uncle of the real singing von Trapps — made famous by The Sound of Music — is worthy of a film in itself.

Sat, 10 Dec, 2022

The State destroyed a woman’s family; her son pieced it back together again
The State destroyed a woman’s family; her son pieced it back together again
Clodagh Finn talks to a prominent academic who overcame secrecy, bureaucracy, falsified documents and ‘bare-faced’ lies to discover his ‘lost’ aunts and uncles, in Ireland and abroad and, in some cases, introduce them to each other for the first time

Sun, 04 Dec, 2022

Clodagh Finn: Tailor clothes to fit the body, not the other way around
Clodagh Finn: Tailor clothes to fit the body, not the other way around
Here we are again with a return to the catwalk waif and the fallout in terms of body image that is certain to follow

Wed, 30 Nov, 2022

Clodagh Finn: Fifteen lessons I learned from Vicky Phelan in her too-short life
Clodagh Finn: Fifteen lessons I learned from Vicky Phelan in her too-short life
Vicky Phelan used her voice not just to challenge, but to rock the system, and she left behind a considerable legacy

Wed, 16 Nov, 2022

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