Clodagh Finn
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
Journalist, writer (new book, The Irish in the Resistance) and collector of stories. Posts about women from history.
Dublin City Arts Officer Ray Yeates: 'This is not an April Fool's joke.'
April 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Dublin City Arts Officer Ray Yeates: 'This is not an April Fool's joke.'
The board of Kerry Airport is to be asked to rename the county’s gateway as the "Daniel O’Connell Airport” to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth.
If they do rename it, might they consider calling it the O'Connell Airport so that there is room to honour Daniel's criminally neglected wife too?
If they do rename it, might they consider calling it the O'Connell Airport so that there is room to honour Daniel's criminally neglected wife too?
March 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The board of Kerry Airport is to be asked to rename the county’s gateway as the "Daniel O’Connell Airport” to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth.
If they do rename it, might they consider calling it the O'Connell Airport so that there is room to honour Daniel's criminally neglected wife too?
If they do rename it, might they consider calling it the O'Connell Airport so that there is room to honour Daniel's criminally neglected wife too?
#ThroughHerEyes
Ahead of tomorrow’s Academy Awards, recall Josie MacAvin, the only Irish person to win both an Oscar and an Emmy, its TV equivalent.
Irishwoman's Diary in today's Irish Examiner.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Ahead of tomorrow’s Academy Awards, recall Josie MacAvin, the only Irish person to win both an Oscar and an Emmy, its TV equivalent.
Irishwoman's Diary in today's Irish Examiner.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
March 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
Ahead of tomorrow’s Academy Awards, recall Josie MacAvin, the only Irish person to win both an Oscar and an Emmy, its TV equivalent.
Irishwoman's Diary in today's Irish Examiner.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Ahead of tomorrow’s Academy Awards, recall Josie MacAvin, the only Irish person to win both an Oscar and an Emmy, its TV equivalent.
Irishwoman's Diary in today's Irish Examiner.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
#ThroughHerEyes
Thrilled to see Dr Caroline West's new book, Wrong Women, launch into the world last night. She excavates the lost voices of Monto, once the biggest red-light district in Europe, and brings these wrong(ed) women back into the light, with dignity.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Thrilled to see Dr Caroline West's new book, Wrong Women, launch into the world last night. She excavates the lost voices of Monto, once the biggest red-light district in Europe, and brings these wrong(ed) women back into the light, with dignity.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
February 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
Thrilled to see Dr Caroline West's new book, Wrong Women, launch into the world last night. She excavates the lost voices of Monto, once the biggest red-light district in Europe, and brings these wrong(ed) women back into the light, with dignity.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Thrilled to see Dr Caroline West's new book, Wrong Women, launch into the world last night. She excavates the lost voices of Monto, once the biggest red-light district in Europe, and brings these wrong(ed) women back into the light, with dignity.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
#ThroughHerEyes
A hymn to aunts - an unheralded superpower.
It is hard to quantify all that my six aunts left behind, but they are still providing metaphorical handrails on this choppy journey we call life.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
A hymn to aunts - an unheralded superpower.
It is hard to quantify all that my six aunts left behind, but they are still providing metaphorical handrails on this choppy journey we call life.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
February 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
A hymn to aunts - an unheralded superpower.
It is hard to quantify all that my six aunts left behind, but they are still providing metaphorical handrails on this choppy journey we call life.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
A hymn to aunts - an unheralded superpower.
It is hard to quantify all that my six aunts left behind, but they are still providing metaphorical handrails on this choppy journey we call life.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
#ThroughHerEyes
When Irish missionary Olive Archer finally arrived at her destination after a four-week canoe journey down the River Luapula in central Africa, her fiancé jumped from his bed and ran to meet her in his pyjamas.
That poignant moment — and the danger and
When Irish missionary Olive Archer finally arrived at her destination after a four-week canoe journey down the River Luapula in central Africa, her fiancé jumped from his bed and ran to meet her in his pyjamas.
That poignant moment — and the danger and
February 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#ThroughHerEyes
When Irish missionary Olive Archer finally arrived at her destination after a four-week canoe journey down the River Luapula in central Africa, her fiancé jumped from his bed and ran to meet her in his pyjamas.
That poignant moment — and the danger and
When Irish missionary Olive Archer finally arrived at her destination after a four-week canoe journey down the River Luapula in central Africa, her fiancé jumped from his bed and ran to meet her in his pyjamas.
That poignant moment — and the danger and
#ThroughHerEyes
Between them, these two Irish women saved some 600 people.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Between them, these two Irish women saved some 600 people.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
January 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
Between them, these two Irish women saved some 600 people.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Between them, these two Irish women saved some 600 people.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
#ThroughHerEyes
Remember the secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾, well, let me present the Siberian diary of Anna Whitney, aged 13½, an extraordinary account of a young girl's trans-Siberian journey from Japan, across the vast terrain of Russia to Europe
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Remember the secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾, well, let me present the Siberian diary of Anna Whitney, aged 13½, an extraordinary account of a young girl's trans-Siberian journey from Japan, across the vast terrain of Russia to Europe
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
January 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
Remember the secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾, well, let me present the Siberian diary of Anna Whitney, aged 13½, an extraordinary account of a young girl's trans-Siberian journey from Japan, across the vast terrain of Russia to Europe
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Remember the secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾, well, let me present the Siberian diary of Anna Whitney, aged 13½, an extraordinary account of a young girl's trans-Siberian journey from Japan, across the vast terrain of Russia to Europe
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
#ThroughHerEyes
There are as many men called James as there are senior women in the New Cabinet, Labour leader
Ivana Bacik said yesterday.
At least in the States, Trump is upfront about dismantling equality and inclusion policies.
Profoundly depressing.
There are as many men called James as there are senior women in the New Cabinet, Labour leader
Ivana Bacik said yesterday.
At least in the States, Trump is upfront about dismantling equality and inclusion policies.
Profoundly depressing.
January 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#ThroughHerEyes
There are as many men called James as there are senior women in the New Cabinet, Labour leader
Ivana Bacik said yesterday.
At least in the States, Trump is upfront about dismantling equality and inclusion policies.
Profoundly depressing.
There are as many men called James as there are senior women in the New Cabinet, Labour leader
Ivana Bacik said yesterday.
At least in the States, Trump is upfront about dismantling equality and inclusion policies.
Profoundly depressing.
#ThroughHerEyes
The 100th anniversary of Maureen Potter’s birthday on January 3, 1925, passed without much fanfare, but we can still kickstart a centenary celebration to honour this exceptional woman, a comic genius who graced stage and screen for decades.
Irishwoman's Diary Irish Examiner today
The 100th anniversary of Maureen Potter’s birthday on January 3, 1925, passed without much fanfare, but we can still kickstart a centenary celebration to honour this exceptional woman, a comic genius who graced stage and screen for decades.
Irishwoman's Diary Irish Examiner today
January 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
#ThroughHerEyes
The 100th anniversary of Maureen Potter’s birthday on January 3, 1925, passed without much fanfare, but we can still kickstart a centenary celebration to honour this exceptional woman, a comic genius who graced stage and screen for decades.
Irishwoman's Diary Irish Examiner today
The 100th anniversary of Maureen Potter’s birthday on January 3, 1925, passed without much fanfare, but we can still kickstart a centenary celebration to honour this exceptional woman, a comic genius who graced stage and screen for decades.
Irishwoman's Diary Irish Examiner today
#ThroughHerEyes
Seeking Miss Rosita McCormack.
Trawling through newspaper archives, I often come across tantalising snippets such as this one from the Irish Press in 1958.
'Miss Rosita McCormack of Cobh, Co Cork, has a most unusual profession. She is a stocking fashion consultant to a hosiery firm.
Seeking Miss Rosita McCormack.
Trawling through newspaper archives, I often come across tantalising snippets such as this one from the Irish Press in 1958.
'Miss Rosita McCormack of Cobh, Co Cork, has a most unusual profession. She is a stocking fashion consultant to a hosiery firm.
January 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
Seeking Miss Rosita McCormack.
Trawling through newspaper archives, I often come across tantalising snippets such as this one from the Irish Press in 1958.
'Miss Rosita McCormack of Cobh, Co Cork, has a most unusual profession. She is a stocking fashion consultant to a hosiery firm.
Seeking Miss Rosita McCormack.
Trawling through newspaper archives, I often come across tantalising snippets such as this one from the Irish Press in 1958.
'Miss Rosita McCormack of Cobh, Co Cork, has a most unusual profession. She is a stocking fashion consultant to a hosiery firm.
#ThroughHerEyes
As the anniversary of her death approaches, recall the extraordinary life of Rosemary Barrett-Murphy, the Irish shoe-shop worker who became an Italian princess.
She left Enniskillen in the 1950s to study nursing in London. There, she won a scholarship to the acting school RADA ...
As the anniversary of her death approaches, recall the extraordinary life of Rosemary Barrett-Murphy, the Irish shoe-shop worker who became an Italian princess.
She left Enniskillen in the 1950s to study nursing in London. There, she won a scholarship to the acting school RADA ...
January 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
As the anniversary of her death approaches, recall the extraordinary life of Rosemary Barrett-Murphy, the Irish shoe-shop worker who became an Italian princess.
She left Enniskillen in the 1950s to study nursing in London. There, she won a scholarship to the acting school RADA ...
As the anniversary of her death approaches, recall the extraordinary life of Rosemary Barrett-Murphy, the Irish shoe-shop worker who became an Italian princess.
She left Enniskillen in the 1950s to study nursing in London. There, she won a scholarship to the acting school RADA ...
#IrishResistance
Incredible spread in @IrishMirror on 'The Irish in the Resistance' yesterday. Thank you very much Derek Foley.
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
Incredible spread in @IrishMirror on 'The Irish in the Resistance' yesterday. Thank you very much Derek Foley.
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
January 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
#IrishResistance
Incredible spread in @IrishMirror on 'The Irish in the Resistance' yesterday. Thank you very much Derek Foley.
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
Incredible spread in @IrishMirror on 'The Irish in the Resistance' yesterday. Thank you very much Derek Foley.
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
#IrishResistance
A massive thank you to the families who told us their stories, the archivists who gave us access to documents, @gillbooks who turned our work into a book, the reviewers who were so kind, but most of all, to every single one of you who bought The Irish in the Resistance.🙏
A massive thank you to the families who told us their stories, the archivists who gave us access to documents, @gillbooks who turned our work into a book, the reviewers who were so kind, but most of all, to every single one of you who bought The Irish in the Resistance.🙏
December 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
#IrishResistance
A massive thank you to the families who told us their stories, the archivists who gave us access to documents, @gillbooks who turned our work into a book, the reviewers who were so kind, but most of all, to every single one of you who bought The Irish in the Resistance.🙏
A massive thank you to the families who told us their stories, the archivists who gave us access to documents, @gillbooks who turned our work into a book, the reviewers who were so kind, but most of all, to every single one of you who bought The Irish in the Resistance.🙏
#ThroughHerEyrd
This winter solstice, spare a thought for Anne Hickey, the woman who looked after Newgrange passage tomb in Co Meath for decades.
As caretaker for 60 years, she kept the vandals, graffiti-scrawlers, and miscreants away from the monument from around 1900 to some time after 1962.
This winter solstice, spare a thought for Anne Hickey, the woman who looked after Newgrange passage tomb in Co Meath for decades.
As caretaker for 60 years, she kept the vandals, graffiti-scrawlers, and miscreants away from the monument from around 1900 to some time after 1962.
December 22, 2024 at 7:53 PM
#ThroughHerEyrd
This winter solstice, spare a thought for Anne Hickey, the woman who looked after Newgrange passage tomb in Co Meath for decades.
As caretaker for 60 years, she kept the vandals, graffiti-scrawlers, and miscreants away from the monument from around 1900 to some time after 1962.
This winter solstice, spare a thought for Anne Hickey, the woman who looked after Newgrange passage tomb in Co Meath for decades.
As caretaker for 60 years, she kept the vandals, graffiti-scrawlers, and miscreants away from the monument from around 1900 to some time after 1962.
#ThroughHerEyes
Remembering Marie O'Sullivan, one of the first continuity announcers on RTE (with Kathleen Watkins and Nuala Donnelly), who died earlier this month.
Before the advent of TV, she was the voice of radio and film commercials & a pioneering speech therapist.
She was also my beloved aunt.
Remembering Marie O'Sullivan, one of the first continuity announcers on RTE (with Kathleen Watkins and Nuala Donnelly), who died earlier this month.
Before the advent of TV, she was the voice of radio and film commercials & a pioneering speech therapist.
She was also my beloved aunt.
December 21, 2024 at 11:05 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
Remembering Marie O'Sullivan, one of the first continuity announcers on RTE (with Kathleen Watkins and Nuala Donnelly), who died earlier this month.
Before the advent of TV, she was the voice of radio and film commercials & a pioneering speech therapist.
She was also my beloved aunt.
Remembering Marie O'Sullivan, one of the first continuity announcers on RTE (with Kathleen Watkins and Nuala Donnelly), who died earlier this month.
Before the advent of TV, she was the voice of radio and film commercials & a pioneering speech therapist.
She was also my beloved aunt.
What a day! The Irish in the Resistance features as Donal Fallon's book of the year AND it gets a fantastic review from Paddy Woodworth, both in today's Irish Times.
November 30, 2024 at 6:20 PM
What a day! The Irish in the Resistance features as Donal Fallon's book of the year AND it gets a fantastic review from Paddy Woodworth, both in today's Irish Times.
Today's Explore Your Archive theme is animals. Meet Bobbins, the cat and intrepid navigator who lived at the oratory in Dun Laoghaire where Sr Concepta Lynch was at work painting its walls and ceiling while perched on a makeshift scaffold, Michelangelo-like.
November 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Today's Explore Your Archive theme is animals. Meet Bobbins, the cat and intrepid navigator who lived at the oratory in Dun Laoghaire where Sr Concepta Lynch was at work painting its walls and ceiling while perched on a makeshift scaffold, Michelangelo-like.
#ThroughHerEyes
Get out and vote today!
Remember all the women who fought so hard to make sure we had a vote. Such as Anna Maria Haslam of Youghal, Co Cork.
When she cast her first vote in 1918, at 90, she was paraded to the polling booth by several jubilant members of the suffrage movement.
Get out and vote today!
Remember all the women who fought so hard to make sure we had a vote. Such as Anna Maria Haslam of Youghal, Co Cork.
When she cast her first vote in 1918, at 90, she was paraded to the polling booth by several jubilant members of the suffrage movement.
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM
#ThroughHerEyes
Get out and vote today!
Remember all the women who fought so hard to make sure we had a vote. Such as Anna Maria Haslam of Youghal, Co Cork.
When she cast her first vote in 1918, at 90, she was paraded to the polling booth by several jubilant members of the suffrage movement.
Get out and vote today!
Remember all the women who fought so hard to make sure we had a vote. Such as Anna Maria Haslam of Youghal, Co Cork.
When she cast her first vote in 1918, at 90, she was paraded to the polling booth by several jubilant members of the suffrage movement.
#ThroughHerEyes
Several suppliers (Musgraves,
SuperValu, Costcutter and Carry Out, to mention a few) are to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey.
It is great to see that violence against women has real consequences.
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4152…
Several suppliers (Musgraves,
SuperValu, Costcutter and Carry Out, to mention a few) are to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey.
It is great to see that violence against women has real consequences.
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4152…
November 26, 2024 at 5:50 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
Several suppliers (Musgraves,
SuperValu, Costcutter and Carry Out, to mention a few) are to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey.
It is great to see that violence against women has real consequences.
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4152…
Several suppliers (Musgraves,
SuperValu, Costcutter and Carry Out, to mention a few) are to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey.
It is great to see that violence against women has real consequences.
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4152…
Today's 'Explore Your Archive' theme is fashion.
Here's Sybil Connolly's Bluebird design sketch, which we reproduced in Her Keys to the City with the kind permission of the Hunt Museum.
This is my favourite Sybil Connolly quote: 'I like to buy my mink and my diamonds myself.'
Here's Sybil Connolly's Bluebird design sketch, which we reproduced in Her Keys to the City with the kind permission of the Hunt Museum.
This is my favourite Sybil Connolly quote: 'I like to buy my mink and my diamonds myself.'
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Today's 'Explore Your Archive' theme is fashion.
Here's Sybil Connolly's Bluebird design sketch, which we reproduced in Her Keys to the City with the kind permission of the Hunt Museum.
This is my favourite Sybil Connolly quote: 'I like to buy my mink and my diamonds myself.'
Here's Sybil Connolly's Bluebird design sketch, which we reproduced in Her Keys to the City with the kind permission of the Hunt Museum.
This is my favourite Sybil Connolly quote: 'I like to buy my mink and my diamonds myself.'
#ThroughHerEyes
I was fascinated to discover that Irish artist Nuala O'Donel was a studio assistant to the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Fellow artist Gwen John described visiting her “splendid marbled studio” in Paris to find her reclining on a divan “dressed in a grey velvet tea gown"...
I was fascinated to discover that Irish artist Nuala O'Donel was a studio assistant to the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Fellow artist Gwen John described visiting her “splendid marbled studio” in Paris to find her reclining on a divan “dressed in a grey velvet tea gown"...
November 23, 2024 at 9:37 AM
#ThroughHerEyes
I was fascinated to discover that Irish artist Nuala O'Donel was a studio assistant to the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Fellow artist Gwen John described visiting her “splendid marbled studio” in Paris to find her reclining on a divan “dressed in a grey velvet tea gown"...
I was fascinated to discover that Irish artist Nuala O'Donel was a studio assistant to the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Fellow artist Gwen John described visiting her “splendid marbled studio” in Paris to find her reclining on a divan “dressed in a grey velvet tea gown"...
#ThroughHerEyes
The 'Irish Writers' poster of old, reimagined 🙌🥳
The best thing I've seen in ages...
From one of the most creative women I know, Joyce Fegan...
The 'Irish Writers' poster of old, reimagined 🙌🥳
The best thing I've seen in ages...
From one of the most creative women I know, Joyce Fegan...
November 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM
#ThroughHerEyes
The 'Irish Writers' poster of old, reimagined 🙌🥳
The best thing I've seen in ages...
From one of the most creative women I know, Joyce Fegan...
The 'Irish Writers' poster of old, reimagined 🙌🥳
The best thing I've seen in ages...
From one of the most creative women I know, Joyce Fegan...
#IrishResistance
Thank you very much Anne Cunningham for this beautiful review:
The Irish in the Resistance 'is an impeccably written and important slice of Irish history'.
The book is available here:
linktr.ee/irishinthere...
www.meathchronicle.ie/2024/11/16/t...
Thank you very much Anne Cunningham for this beautiful review:
The Irish in the Resistance 'is an impeccably written and important slice of Irish history'.
The book is available here:
linktr.ee/irishinthere...
www.meathchronicle.ie/2024/11/16/t...
November 17, 2024 at 10:26 AM
#IrishResistance
Thank you very much Anne Cunningham for this beautiful review:
The Irish in the Resistance 'is an impeccably written and important slice of Irish history'.
The book is available here:
linktr.ee/irishinthere...
www.meathchronicle.ie/2024/11/16/t...
Thank you very much Anne Cunningham for this beautiful review:
The Irish in the Resistance 'is an impeccably written and important slice of Irish history'.
The book is available here:
linktr.ee/irishinthere...
www.meathchronicle.ie/2024/11/16/t...
Thank you very much Majella O'Sullivan for this lovely piece in Kerry's Eye. There are just a few tickets left for our talk on The Irish in the Resistance tomorrow at 6pm.
Make sure to check out all the events @DingleLit
It's a brilliant festival.
See you there!
dinglelit.ie/news/event/iri…
Make sure to check out all the events @DingleLit
It's a brilliant festival.
See you there!
dinglelit.ie/news/event/iri…
November 15, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Thank you very much Majella O'Sullivan for this lovely piece in Kerry's Eye. There are just a few tickets left for our talk on The Irish in the Resistance tomorrow at 6pm.
Make sure to check out all the events @DingleLit
It's a brilliant festival.
See you there!
dinglelit.ie/news/event/iri…
Make sure to check out all the events @DingleLit
It's a brilliant festival.
See you there!
dinglelit.ie/news/event/iri…