Clodagh Finn

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by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell

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Cover of Great Irish Wives

“If they were alive, all 10 would certainly salute this gifted writer who has done so much to restore women to our lopsided historical narrative.”

Thank you to Clodagh Finn for such a brilliant piece on Nicola Pierce’s newest title.

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Lovely article by the fab @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on the wonderful @nicolapierce.bsky.social 's new book!!! Great Irish Wives! Worth a repost!

We're really looking forward to this Dublin Book Fair event in November with Evelyn Conlon (author and UCD Press co-editor of After the Train) and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with author and journalist Clodagh Finn!

Saturday, 8 November
11 am
IMMA, RHK

🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att

You have been a true champion of hers, Lee. 👏👏👏

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

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A true hero of early C18th Ireland, improving ordinary lives through solid good works, steering refreshingly clear of violence.
Great to see Dublin's indefatigable Madam Steevens in the spotlight, thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social 👏
@dublincitylibs.bsky.social

Poster with details of my upcoming talk for the Limerick History Festival. Talk is titled '“She never knew any man on earth except [him]: Paternity disputes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ulster.” My talk explores issues of paternity, pregnancy & sexual scandal. Thursday 25 September at People's Museum, No. 2 Pery Square, 7pm.

If you're in Limerick on the evening of Thursday 25 September, I'll be sharing research from my upcoming book on pregnancy and paternity disputes in 18th/19th century Ulster as part of the Limerick History Festival. Be lovely to see folks there! #womenshist #histsex #histfam

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

#Irishwoman'sDiary
If a visiting monkey has a place in the streetscape in Clonakilty, Mary Jane Irwin, poet, activist, mother of 13 and wife of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa certainly deserves one too.
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The farmer's daughter returns from Dublin with an extravagant hairdo, to shock the the family and cat

Plus ca change ...
(Irish print from c.1777, British Museum)
a.k.a. 'notions'

Born #Onthisday 1894 Monica Wichfeld who was raised in #Fermanagh. Later she was a leading member of the Danish resistance during t#WW2 & was the 1st woman in Denmark to receive a capital sentence for resistance against the Nazis -she died in Waldheim Prison in 1945
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social

Oonagh Keogh - First female stockbroker: Wicklow connections Remarkable woman Oonagh Keogh is one of the trailblazing women featured on the RTE series Herstory. Oonagh began work on the ...

Died #Onthisday 1989 Oonah Keogh who became the first female member of the Dublin Stock Exchange, in 1925 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social heritage.wicklowheritage.org/people/oonag...

My wee mum died a month ago. I still can’t believe it. Part of me never will.

Today, I’ve got to return to work (self-employed).

We have laws granting paid leave for birth - rightly so. We should also, I think, offer similar support for people living with loss.

Grief Leave.

A kindness.

“Mama! Mum, mummy, mom, mother, ma, child-bearer, parent!”

Roget’s first words

Died #Onthisday 1976 #Dublin born Rosie Hackett, nationalist, trade unionist, & workers' rights activist @clodaghfinn.bsky.social dib.ie/node/25563/r...

Died #Onthisday 1926 Eva Gore-Booth, suffragist, artist and poet - B&W📷Eva, Constance (Countess Markievicz) & dog Satan, 1896 at the High Ashes farmhouse, Abinger, Surrey
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social lissadellhouse.com/eva-gore-boo...

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

'a gloriously affirming collection of essays that sets out not only what was wrong in Irish society 50 years ago but, more importantly, how it was righted'

Thanks @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for the fine review of After the Train

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Died #Onthisday 1949 Róisín Walsh, republican, feminist & first chief librarian #Dublin www.dublincity.ie/library/blog... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social (Gravestone image via IGP)

Thank you!

Cover image of the book "The Irish in the Resistance"

Just finished reading The Irish in the Resistance by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and John Morgan; I can't recommend it highly enough.

Brilliantly told and incredibly easy to read. Fascinating stories of a bunch of people who, IMO, had absolutely no need to risk their lives but did so anyway.

Women On Walls: Dr Victoria Coffey Women on Walls is an eight-part podcast series celebrating the lives of eight Irish women who forged careers in healthcare during a time in Ireland when women were expected to stay at home...

Died #Onthisday 1999 Dr Victoria Coffey, one of the 1st female paediatricians in Ireland, 1st female recipient of RCSI’s Distinguished Graduate Medal, 1st woman President of both the Irish Paediatric Association & the RCSI Postgraduates’ Assoc. @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬

Born #Onthisday 1862 #IrishAuthor & #Sufragette VIOLET ROSS who wrote under the pseudonym Martin Ross with cousin Edith Somerville. She was VP of the Munster Women's Franchise League @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ B&W 📸 with Sommerville in #Cork c1890 www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

#Onthisday 1903 Trinity College voted 74 to 11 to carry the resolution 'that it is desirable that degrees in the University of Dublin shall be opened to women' @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬

Born #Onthisday 1883 - Nun & Botanist Clare Emma Whitty who died on ‘Tiger Death March’ in North Korea in 1950 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/3C00vT5

Born #Onthisday 1877 in #Kanturk #Cork Hanna Sheehy (Skeffington) 'her commitment to women’s equality, social justice and international solidarity never wavered in a lifetime of feminist activism spanning two world wars' @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ rte.ie/centuryirela...
B&W📸NLI

Born #Onthisday 1910 in Fermoy #Cork author Una Troy who began writing as Elizabeth Connor in 1936 with a 'Mount Prospect' banned in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board - More @ria.ie dib.ie/biography/tr... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬

LOLA RIDGE / Modernist poet, anarchist, labour activist — Lola Ridge, 1873–1941 Modernist poet, anarchist, labour activist Rose Emily Ridge was born in Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin in 1873. Her medical student father died when she was three, so her mother…

Died #Onthisday 1941, Lola Ridge, 'Modernist poet, anarchist, labour activist' - more about the woman born in #Dublin in 1873 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social

#Onthisday 1945, the Royal Society announced the election to its Fellowship of two women: Marjory Stephenson & #Kildare born crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (pictured with Douglas Hyde) @clodaghfinn.bsky.social royalsociety.org/blog/2023/03... 📸https://buff.ly/4060h7I

Born #Onthisday 1852 in #Wicklow Anna Parnell, nationalist & land activist & founder of the Ladies Land League - on the 1891 census she noted her occupation as 'Living on own means' More from @clodaghfinn.bsky.social irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Lilian Bland — Women’s Museum of Ireland Pioneering Aviatrix

Died #Onthisday 1971 Lillian Bland - journalist & 'she not only flew Ireland’s first powered biplane, but was also the first woman in the world to design, build and fly an aeroplane' -
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social more womensmuseumofireland.ie/exhibits/lil... & lilianbland.ie