Clodagh Finn
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
Journalist, writer (new book, The Irish in the Resistance) and collector of stories. Posts about women from history.
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Some great lines in this piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social - Josephine McNeil - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
#SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGhorm
Clodagh Finn: Remembering the first female envoy who paved the way in foreign affairs
Cork-born Josephine McNeill became the first Irish woman to head a diplomatic mission abroad in 1949
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November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Some great lines in this piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social - Josephine McNeil - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
#SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGhorm
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@clodaghfinn.bsky.social has a great piece in The Examiner about Irish Painter, Amelia Curran.
And there is to be a book about Amelia Curran by Laura McKenna.
#SpéirGhorm
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
And there is to be a book about Amelia Curran by Laura McKenna.
#SpéirGhorm
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Clodagh Finn: Amelia Curran, the Irish painter who immortalised poet Shelley
If Amelia Curran’s work was later forgotten, it was celebrated in her lifetime
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November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social has a great piece in The Examiner about Irish Painter, Amelia Curran.
And there is to be a book about Amelia Curran by Laura McKenna.
#SpéirGhorm
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
And there is to be a book about Amelia Curran by Laura McKenna.
#SpéirGhorm
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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ALL WELCOME
to the launch of
WTF HAPPENED
#WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre
@irishtheatreinstitute.ie @druidtheatre.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social @martindoyle.bsky.social
by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell
to the launch of
WTF HAPPENED
#WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre
@irishtheatreinstitute.ie @druidtheatre.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social @martindoyle.bsky.social
by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell
September 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
ALL WELCOME
to the launch of
WTF HAPPENED
#WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre
@irishtheatreinstitute.ie @druidtheatre.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social @martindoyle.bsky.social
by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell
to the launch of
WTF HAPPENED
#WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre
@irishtheatreinstitute.ie @druidtheatre.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social @martindoyle.bsky.social
by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell
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“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.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Thank you to Clodagh Finn for such a brilliant piece on Nicola Pierce’s newest title.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
September 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“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.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Thank you to Clodagh Finn for such a brilliant piece on Nicola Pierce’s newest title.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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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!
“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.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Thank you to Clodagh Finn for such a brilliant piece on Nicola Pierce’s newest title.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
September 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Lovely article by the fab @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on the wonderful @nicolapierce.bsky.social 's new book!!! Great Irish Wives! Worth a repost!
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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
Saturday, 8 November
11 am
IMMA, RHK
🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att
September 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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
Saturday, 8 November
11 am
IMMA, RHK
🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att
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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
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
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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September 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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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
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
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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
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vwyx4yl3xscyeedekfm4mrky/bafkreigvardemls3bidhbsc3q2a4nyy3ugnosa5uoi346t6j7fb3tzc4w4@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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
#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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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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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
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September 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#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.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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Plus ca change ...
(Irish print from c.1777, British Museum)
a.k.a. 'notions'
(Irish print from c.1777, British Museum)
a.k.a. 'notions'
September 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Plus ca change ...
(Irish print from c.1777, British Museum)
a.k.a. 'notions'
(Irish print from c.1777, British Museum)
a.k.a. 'notions'
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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
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
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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...
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 ...
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July 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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...
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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.
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.
July 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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.
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.
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“Mama! Mum, mummy, mom, mother, ma, child-bearer, parent!”
Roget’s first words
Roget’s first words
July 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
“Mama! Mum, mummy, mom, mother, ma, child-bearer, parent!”
Roget’s first words
Roget’s first words
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Died #Onthisday 1976 #Dublin born Rosie Hackett, nationalist, trade unionist, & workers' rights activist @clodaghfinn.bsky.social dib.ie/node/25563/r...
July 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Died #Onthisday 1976 #Dublin born Rosie Hackett, nationalist, trade unionist, & workers' rights activist @clodaghfinn.bsky.social dib.ie/node/25563/r...
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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...
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social lissadellhouse.com/eva-gore-boo...
June 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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...
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social lissadellhouse.com/eva-gore-boo...
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'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
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Thanks @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for the fine review of After the Train
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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
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June 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
'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
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Thanks @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for the fine review of After the Train
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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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)
June 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Died #Onthisday 1949 Róisín Walsh, republican, feminist & first chief librarian #Dublin www.dublincity.ie/library/blog... @clodaghfinn.bsky.social (Gravestone image via IGP)
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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.
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.
June 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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.
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.
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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
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...
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June 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
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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
June 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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
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#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
June 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#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
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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
May 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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
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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
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May 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
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