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Clodagh Finn

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes It's launch day for 'Her Keys to the City'. I'm fizzing with excitement and so privileged to have been involved in a project that honours 80 of the women who made Dublin the city is it today. Some snippets: Dr Kathleen Lynn slept in the open air on a balcony for

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

8 months

#ThroughHerEyes The funeral mass of Ireland's oldest woman takes place today. Last year, she climbed aboard a Model T Ford the same age as herself (108 yrs old) and did a turn of the Phoenix Park talking about her life as a scientist working on the newly discovered Vitamin C, her

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

11 months

It's interesting to compare the wall-to-wall coverage on the five poor souls who are missing on a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck to that on the 300-plus people drowned when a fishing trawler sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday. Funny old world.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes Thinking of Belinda Pereira who was murdered in Dublin #otd in 1996. Like Sophie Toscan du Plantier, murdered just six days before, her killer has never been found. Unlike Sophie, her death at age 26 is often forgotten. This Garda appeal still applies 👇

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

10 months

The Mother and Baby Home redress scheme has just been signed into law. The minimum payment to mothers who spent time in those institutions is 5,000 euros - an amount that has been in the news recently because almost that much was spent on flip-flops at a RTE bash. But then, we

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

3 years

I was born in St Patrick's mother and babies home and I was 26 years old before I found out my own identity. I waited 7 years for an answer to a letter asking for my birth details. Will you join me in signing this petition to help other adoptees get access to their birth certs.

Dr Maeve O'Rourke

@maeveorourke

3 years

I just signed this petition, will you join me? #BirthCerts4AdopteesNOW #Stand4Truth #motherandbabyhomes via @UpliftIRL

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes Oh my, look at this crash diet for women published by Vogue in 1977. The diet was for three days and was to be done on the weekend because it would leave you "fuzzy". No wonder as it allowed a bottle of wine a day! From History cool kids post.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

24 days

What a magnificent photo of Stardust survivor Antoinette Keegan, who lost her two sisters Mary and Martina. 🙏 I salute her and all the others who fought for *FOUR* decades for the verdict of unlawful killing delivered today. Justice should not be this hard. Pic: Brian Lawless

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes As we mark 50 years of EU membership, recall that the Irish government sought an exemption from legislation requiring member states to pay men & women equally. What happened next? Hilda Tweedy went to Europe and kicked up a fuss. The govt didn't get its exemption

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

10 months

#ThroughHerEyes Hollywood strikers might take inspiration from Mary Manning, the Dunne's Stores worker who protested against apartheid by refusing to handle South African grapefruit #otd in 1984. She was suspended and 9 co-workers went on strike. They held out for *two* years

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

11 months

#ThroughHerEyes What a poignant story. Catalina Muñoz Arranz took her 8-month-old son's rattle with her to her execution during the Spanish Civil War. It was buried with her. Nearly eight decades later, it was found in her grave and returned to her son.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes I promised you more on the love story between Harlem nurse Salaria Kea, discriminated against at home because of her colour, and Tipperary man John Patrick O'Reilly who wooed her with poetry during the Spanish Civil War. They were together for nearly 50 years.👇

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

3 years

#ThroughHerEyes diary My toes curl at this, but here goes. If you are interested in my daily tweets on women from Irish history, please follow and/or retweet. I'm hoping to turn this diary into something more tangible and in this crazy world follower numbers count. Big thanks 🙏

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes Like @Theresa_OKeefe I've been thinking of Urantsetseg Tserendorj too. She was just walking home from work when she was murdered on 20 January 2021. Let's light a candle for her too as her anniversary approaches. 🙏

Theresa O'Keefe 🍉

@Theresa_OKeefe

2 years

Can't stop thinking of Urantsetseg Tserendorj and the lack of public grief over her murder.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

3 years

Over the next 21 days I'll be posting about relatively unknown Irish women from history, a kind of Advent Calendar herstory. Here's the first one, Kildare-born Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971), the first female fellow of the Royal Society for her pioneering worn on crystallography.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes diary As a 54-yr-old woman, it pleases me enormously that Sheelagh Haribson's (1914-2012) illustrious career as a medieval historian didn't begin until she was 56. She enrolled as a mature student at TCD and learned Latin from scratch. Follow your dreams!

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes Husband-hunting in 1826. A young lady advertises to say that she will be walking for half an hour on the north side of Merrion Square next Sunday and would be happy to receive any letters handed to her. She would be wearing a green silk opera cloak, a bonnet,

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes Phyllis Ryan (1895-1983) chemist, public analyst, businesswoman and wife of President Séan T. O'Kelly. She was the only woman to qualify with a degree in chemistry from UCD in 1916 and went on to set up a public analyst practice. All her staff were women chemists

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes This is Salaria Kea, a US nurse who was not allowed work at home in 1936 because she was black but was embraced at Villa Paz American Hospital near Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. There, she met & later married an injured Irish soldier, John Patrick O'Reilly

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

6 months

#TheWomenWhoChangedIreland It's almost 50 years since May McGee took on the Irish State and won access to contraception for married couples. She was spurred into action after Customs officials seized the spermicidal jelly she had ordered from the UK on a doctor's advice. I'm

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes Ena McEntee with her husband Hugh hatched a plan to spring at least 15 women from a Magdalene Laundry in Galway. It's wonderful to see that she and Patricia Burke Brogan, who shone a light on terrible laundry conditions, have received the Freedom of Galway city

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

10 months

#ThroughHerEyes Ciara Mangan, you are an extraordinary woman and will help so many others by speaking out about your ordeal.

RTÉ News

@rtenews

10 months

A woman who was raped by a colleague at a house party in Co Mayo ten years ago has said she was subjected to ‘vulgar rape comments’ for months afterwards. Ciara Mangan was speaking after Shane Noonan was jailed for seven years | Read more:

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes "If I had a dime for every computer in the world, I sure would be a rich lady," Kay McNulty, Donegal native, Gaelic speaker, maths genius and one of the original programmers of the first ever general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC. She was born #otd in 1921.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes Irish Titanic survivor interview. Chilling.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes Mary McGee, mother of four who won a Supreme Court challenge to the ban on contraception in 1973. She was advised another pregnancy would endanger her life and took action when the (then illegal) spermicidal jelly she ordered from England was seized by a Customs.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

The whole country is behind you, Corry. The dignity and bravery of this man speaking out against abuse is absolutely heartrending. We are all with you. 🙏

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes diary D Hilda Moriarty (1922-1991), Kerry-born doctor who inspired Patrick Kavanagh to write Raglin Road. As a 22-year-old medical student, she teased him for writing about cabbages and turnips and he responded by writing a poem for her.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes On Brigid's Day, it's good to recall that Ireland was more diverse than you might think. This is Rachael Baptist-Crow, a fêted black singer who performed in the 1750s in Marlborough Green Gardens, a pleasure garden in Dublin. She was applauded with great delight.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes Thinking of film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier who was murdered #otd in 1996. I'm also thinking of the 18 other women murdered in Ireland that year, one of the most brutal on record. Though, let's remember their lives today, rather than their violent deaths.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes Talking to May McGee, the woman who went all the way to the Supreme Court to challenge Ireland's ban on contraception, ranks as one of the most special interviews I've ever done. She's a force of nature and is still calling out nonsense.

The Changemakers: The woman who took on the State – and won access to contraception for all

When Customs officials seized the spermicidal jelly mother-of-four May McGee had ordered from the UK on the advice of a doctor, she was livid and took action that led to lasting change, writes...

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes We hear a lot about writer Mary Wollstonecraft and her writer daughter, Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), but I didn't know Mary's mother Elizabeth Dixon was from Donegal. A teenage Mary used to lie outside her mother's bedroom to protect her from a bullying husband,

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

10 months

#ThroughHerEyes There is something very poignant about seeing the juxtaposition of news of Sinead O'Connor's death and a report on the shameful shortcomings in mental health care for young people. One way to honour her extraordinary legacy might be to introduce radical reform.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

Chapters. 👇 So glad it's still here. 💖

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

10 months

#ThroughHerEyes Husband charged with the murder of his 38-year-old wife, named locally as Deepa Dinamani, who moved to Ireland from India just a few months ago. 🙏 Femicide continues 💔

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes This Holocaust Memorial Day, recall Delia Murphy Kiernan, the Irish singer who helped Vatican official Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty save up to 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews, while in Rome. Delia's husband, Dr Thomas J Kiernan, was Irish Ambassador to Rome.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

10 months

#ThroughHerEyes It's my birthday today and I want to mark it by thanking everyone who interacts with account. 🙏 I also want to send out best wishes to all other adopted people who fought for so long to get their birth information, and still face discrimination under the law.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes Rest in peace Máirín Hughes, science graduate (UCC in 1935), chemist and keen observer of a century of Irish history from the Spanish Flu to Black and Tan patrols in Killarney in 1921 and Free State soldiers in 1922. She has died aged 109. This is her at 109. 🙏

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes Thinking of Ann Lovett, the 15-year-old schoolgirl who died #otd in 1984 after giving birth to a stillborn baby boy beside a grotto in Granard in Co Longford. Excellent piece here from Rosita Boland on 'the death of a strong, kickass girl'

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

8 months

memories of the Spanish Flu, Black and Tans, war of Independence, 1932 Eucharistic Congress, rooftop bomb duty during WWll and the secret to a long life. Huge thanks to @lore_irish for sharing their insights with me and providing these stunning pics.

A history of Ireland through the eyes of its oldest woman — Máirín Hughes

There’s a fascinating account of it on the Irish Life and Lore podcast in which Máirín Hughes, who died aged 109 on Tuesday, ensures that the details of her singular life are preserved. And what a...

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes How utterly dispiriting that the New Year starts with news of another woman's death. Investigation underway after woman's body found in Cork

Gardaí investigating murder of woman in Cork

A man has been arrested and gardaí are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in an apartment in Cork yesterday morning.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

3 years

Starting tomorrow, using the hashtag #ThroughHerEyes , I'll tweet daily about a different woman from Irish history in an attempt to shine a light on the many forgotten or overlooked women who have walked this way before us. Here's to a more balanced telling of history in 2021.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

3 years

#ThroughHerEyes diary What a photograph. These are some of the Wexford women selected to leave Famine workhouses to begin new lives in South Africa under the Earl Grey orphan scheme. I'll report from the 'Pioneering Wexford Women' exhibition at Johnstown Castle tomorrow.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes It's great to see that a 1947 recording of Maud Gonne recalling evictions are among RTÉ radio recordings now online. “I couldn’t remain a mere spectator on such a one-sided battle." Can we stop calling her Yeats' muse now? She was a revolutionary and suffragette.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

4 years

As a person born in a mother and baby home, I am sick to the pit of my stomach tonight. The secrets and lies live on. Devastating news. #UnsealTheArchives

Dr Mary McGill

@MsMaryMcGill

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For those of us born in mother and baby ‘homes’, there is no new Ireland just the same old silence and obfuscation. This government’s legacy could be dismantling and confronting that system (at last) but it chooses to perpetuate it. How’s that for ‘equality’. #UnsealTheArchive

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes diary I always think of the diaspora as Paddy's Day approaches. Here are a group of servants in the US around 1846. A decade later, almost three-quarters of domestic servants in New York were Irish. Most of the money sent back to Ireland came from women.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

4 years

As an adoptee who waited 7 years for a response to a letter asking about my birth details, it is heartening - and humbling - to see that 100,000 signed a petition to open the archives. Is the time for national truth-telling here at last? #RepealTheSeal #MotherandBabyHome

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@aitheantas

4 years

We’ve passed 100,000 signatures, OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND SIGNATURES IN 36 HOURS to #RepealTheSeal and #OpentheArchive . Please keep signing and sharing for #Truth and #Justice for those who have been made silent - it’s time to be heard

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Clodagh Finn

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1 year

#ThroughHerEyes I have news! The wonderful @irishexaminer has asked me to write a new column, An Irishwoman’s Diary, starting on Saturday, December 10. It will be a #ThroughHerEyes diary, with knobs on. You can subscribe to the paper for just €50 a year.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes Sarah Clarke, art teacher, civil rights campaigner, Joan of Arc of British prisons & nun, was born #otd in Galway in 1919. She played a leading role in campaigns to clear the Guildford Four, Maguire Seven, and Birmingham Six. Paul Hill labelled her Joan of Arc.

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes Aboriginal-rights campaigner Lowitja O’Donoghue, whose father was Irish, was the first Aboriginal trainee nurse at Adelaide hospital in 1954. When she was 2, she was taken from her father & Pitjantjatjara mother by the South Australia’s Aboriginal Protection Board

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

3 years

#ThroughHerEyes diary This Mayday, recall Mother Jones, born Mary Harris in Cork c 1837, who went on to become "the most dangerous woman in America", fighting for workers' rights. She was a schoolteacher, dressmaker and activist who co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes diary The other Overend sister today, Naomi (1900-1993). In 1973, she turned down the 'magic crinkle of 1 million crisp pound notes' from developers intent on turning her farm at Airfield into luxury housing. When she died in 1993, she left it to the Irish people

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

1 year

#ThroughHerEyes Great letter today in @irishexaminer from Christy Galligan, saying that Vicky Phelan's death was a reminder of another great campaigner, Brigid McCole from Donegal. Infected with contaminated anti-D products, she fought every legal obstacle placed in front of her

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes Let's hear it for Anne O'Brien, who paved the way for the 'girls in green'. The soccer player from Inchicore, Dublin, was the first female player (Irish or British) to play the professional game. She won 9 league titles with Stade de Reims, France and Lazio, Italy

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes Remembering the epitome of courage, Christine Buckley, on her birthday today. I wish she were still with us. We need her voice to ask why religious institutions have yet to contribute to the mother and baby homes redress scheme.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

@DIB_RIA

2 years

Placed in St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge at the age of 4, nurse & advocate for survivors of childhood abuse Christine Buckley (b. #OTD 1946) was assigned the number ‘89’, which replaced her name for the 13 years she was a resident. #DIBLives

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

3 years

The last thing I wanted to do was write about how it feels to get your birth cert at 53 but I did it because survivor and adoptee voices have been muted for too long. For a better Ireland, the lived experiences of Irish citizens must shape gov policy.

Mother and Baby home survivor Clodagh Finn: Stop muting our voices

I am 53 years old and I saw my birth cert for the first time this week, writes Clodagh Finn

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

2 years

#ThroughHerEyes On the day that contraception is made free to 17-25 year-olds, recall the woman who paved the way by going to the Supreme Court in 1973. I had the great honour of meeting her (interview appearing soon in an @irishexaminer series on the women who changed Ireland).

Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes Mary McGee, mother of four who won a Supreme Court challenge to the ban on contraception in 1973. She was advised another pregnancy would endanger her life and took action when the (then illegal) spermicidal jelly she ordered from England was seized by a Customs.

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#ThroughHerEyes #otd in 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolated radioactive radium salts in their lab in Paris. She was once asked what it was like to be married to a genius. Her reply: 'I don't know; ask my husband.' From @irishexaminer #otd

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@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes diary Charlotte Berger Greneche and I became friends under the most extraordinary circumstances. I found her mother’s last words in an archive. They were spoken out the window of a train as she was being taken to her death in a gas chamber in Auschwitz in 1942...

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Clodagh Finn

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2 years

#ThroughHerEyes When I started tweeting about women in history as a lockdown project, I never dreamt of the response I'd get from all of you. I'm heading towards 10K followers, many of whom have offered information, photos, encouragement, personal stories. Thank you all so much

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes I hope all the talk of Storm Agnes will heighten the profile of the woman who inspired the name. The storm is named for Agnes Mary Clerke, the Cork astronomer, writer and 'mother of popular science'. See 👇 @SouthernStarIRL

Skibb scientist Agnes honoured with first storm name chosen | The Southern Star

THE first name in the new list of storm names released recently by Met Éireann honours a West Cork scientist.Agnes, which is the first of 21 storm names, refers to Agnes Mary Clerke, the Skibbereen...

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes diary Bridget Brown (1901-1968) mother of 23. When her 10th child, artist & writer Christy, was born with celebral palsy, she said: "He was bred in my body and he is not going into a home." She spent hours teaching him to read and write. Her motto: "It is better..

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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Interesting fact ahead of the release of Oppenheimer, the story of the 'father' of the atomic bomb. Irish cameraman Lt. Daniel A. McGovern was one of the first to film the devastated city of Nagasaki. This is him with his camera. See more from the man who told his story 👇

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes Ahead of D-Day tomorrow, recall Maureen Flavin Sweeney, the woman whose weather report from Mayo on June 3 warned of an approaching storm. As a result, US general Dwight D Eisenhower postponed the D-Day landings by 24 hours. 'Her skill and professionalism were

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes Thinking of the needless death of Savita Halappanavar, who was born #otd in 1981. 🙏 It is cold comfort to her friends and family, but her death was a powerful catalyst for change in Irish abortion laws.

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#ThroughHerEyes I was bowled over by your support when I asked for followers to help me turn these tweets into something more concrete. I'm thrilled to report that I'll be working with @LordMayorDublin on a new book to honour overlooked Dublin women.

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#ThroughHerEyes Mary Ellen Spring Rice, nationalist, Gaelic League activist and member of the United Irishwomen (ICA precursor), was born #otd in 1880. She helped smuggle arms on the Asgard in 1914 & kept a diary. One of the crew said of her: 'Miss Spring Rice is a wonder. She

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#ThroughHerEyes diary Sybil Connolly (1921-1998), fashion designer who gave a new lease of life to traditional Irish fabrics. In the 50s, she employed over 100 women who often worked in their own homes. Her designs were worn by Jackie Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Andrews.

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes My amazing mum Una is gone five years today. She'd have an absolute fit if she knew that I was posting about her here, but I wanted to salute a woman whose fierce intelligence was lost to the world of work because of the marriage bar. We benefited from it though.

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes Kathleen Behan was mother of all the Behans - and so much more. She was a folk singer, Cumann na mBan member and socialist who survived two world wars, the death of two husbands, the death of two sons, 7 years in an orphanage, and a sexual assault. If you can,

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes I'm thinking of Dr Dorothy Stopford Price, the woman who brought the TB vaccine to Ireland. She was born #otd in 1890. She learned German so that she could research how Germany and other countries were tackling the disease. Pic @RCPIArchive in #HerKeystotheCity

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes 2021 diary Mabel Cahill (1863-1905) from Kilkenny won five US Open tennis titles. In 1897, she moved to the UK but died of TB in a workhouse. She is buried in a pauper's graveyard. I don't think the grave is marked. Anybody interested in trying to change that?

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was born #otd in 1832. I have to say I went off her after reading that she fired her Irish maid because of “the faults of her race.” Here, she shows her racist colours.

When Louisa May Alcott Endorsed "No Irish Need Apply" - The Reconstruction Era

Like many of her background, Louisa May Alcott had strong prejudices against Irish immigrants. While we remember her for Little Women, Alcott was a frequent...

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes This is my holiday snap of the year. Taken in 1913, it shows a Cobh ‘bumboat’ woman, using hooks and a rope, to board the Lusitania to sell her wares. Some of those early saleswomen were whisked off to the US before they could disembark.

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

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#ThroughHerEyes Marion Broderick, doctor on the Aran Islands for 42. She delivered babies, handled dental emergencies and even treated animals when needed. 'If there was a Guinness world record for medical support on an offshore island, Dr Marion Broderick would surely qualify.'

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Clodagh Finn

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As a person born in a mother and baby home, I can't describe how important it is to me that survivors, birth mothers and adoptees get their personal information. In the meantime, it's time for their voices to be heard. Here's mine. #UnsealTheArchive

Clodagh Finn: What it was like meeting my birth father for the first time, aged 26

Many years ago, Clodagh Finn wrote a paragraph on what it was like meeting her birth father for the first time, aged 26. She felt at the time that she would not have been able to write any more....

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#ThroughHerEyes Thekla Beere, only female law student at Trinity in 1919, statistician and first female general secretary of a government department died #otd in 1991. She was also first chair of the Commission on the Status of Women. And so much more, including governor of the

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#ThroughHerEyes diary Mary Rafferty (1957-2012) filmmaker, writer and journalist who laid bare the extent of child abuse in Ireland. Her 1999 series 'States of Fear' led to the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse while 'Cardinal Secrets' led to a Commission into clerical abuse

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Clodagh Finn

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#ThroughHerEyes What an honour to be named this year's #ExploreYourArchive ambassador. The word 'archive' might not bring you out in goosebumps, but it should. I've found the most incredible stories of adventure, joy, loss and resilience in them. More on those stories to come...

ARA Ireland

@ARAIreland

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We’re thrilled to announce the @ARAIreland #ExploreYourArchive ambassador for 2023/24 is journalist & author @FinnClodagh . Clodagh will be joining us for the #ARAIreland launch of the #EYA focus week @ITMADublin on 23rd November- more details tbc very soon. 📷 @ruthlessimagery

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#ThroughHerEyes On her third anniversary today, take a moment to listen to Margaret MacCurtain explain why she was 'tremendously excited' by the student protest of UCD in 1969. She was a true changemaker who wrote women back into history and refused to give Archbishop Quaid her

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#ThroughHerEyes diary Monica Barnes (1936-2018) TD, fearless women's right activist and co-founder of the Council for the Status of Women in 1973. She was one of two women to vote against putting the controversial 8th amendment in the Constitution. She was also one of the first..

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#ThroughHerEyes diary In the 1950s, the exceptional American photographer Dorothea Lange came to Ireland to record the traditional way of life that was thought to be vanishing as the 20th-century progressed. I love this one...

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#ThroughHerEyes Alice Everett (1865-1949) astronomer, physicist, scholar. In 1882 she came first in science exams at Queen's, Belfast, a result that made authorities open scholarships to women. She was a founding member of the Television Society, set to promote research into TV

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#ThroughHerEyes I was fascinated to read this insight into how Countess Markievicz used art to help her get through the days at Aylesbury prison in 1916. She sketched on toilet paper or whatever paper she could find. She also gathered old cleaning cloths, washed them and then

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#ThroughHerEyes An anthropology lecturer held up a piece of bone with 28 incisions, saying it was *man's* earliest attempt at a calendar. What man needs to mark 28 days!? How often have we overlooked Inspiring Women in STEM? 1 Feb at 615pm. Link 👇

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@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes “We decided that we could either spend the [presidential] entertainment allocation on 10 grand dinners, or 10,000 cups of tea and a bun. Mary decided on the tea and a bun.” Bride Rosney showed what was possible if you dared to imagine a different Ireland. RIP 🙏

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#ThroughHerEyes In the 1970s, when @MargaretWard1 first said that she wanted to research Irish women, she was told she couldn't because they hadn't done anything! It was such a joy to hear her chair this session with women who have done so much to show how untrue that is.

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@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes Eileen Gallagher (1887-1976) founder of only Irish chocolate factory (Urney) in 1924, and 1st female commercial traveller. During the civil war, she stayed on the road, once wading across a river when the bridge was blown up, then hitching a ride on a manure cart

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#ThroughHerEyes Fifty years ago, Sylvia Cairns helped to set up Cherish to support unmarried mothers at a time when they were being sent into Mother and Baby Homes. Now, her grand-daughter Holly Cairns is fighting to help the survivors of those institutions. What a duo 👏👏👏

Holly Cairns TD

@HollyCairnsTD

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This is my grandmother, Sylvia Cairns (we call her Nanny). She is 88 years old. 50 years ago, along with a group of trailblazing women, she helped to set up a charity called Cherish (now known as @1familyireland ). 🧵

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#ThroughHerEyes Brigid McCole (1942-1996), the Donegal campaigner who went to the High Court to find the truth of the Hepatitis C scandal after being infected with contaminated blood in 1977. She died the day after liability was admitted. Have we learned nothing? #CervicalCheck

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#ThroughHerEyes Eibhlín Uí Choisdeailbh (Edith Costello) was born in a workhouse in 1870 and went on to become a school principal, folksong collector & senator who, with Jennie Wyse Power, got the Senate to reject a 1925 bill proposing to keep women at lower civil service grades.

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#ThroughHerEyes When historian Dr Sheila Mulloy got her PhD in 1955, the Mayo News wrote: 'Married Woman Gets Degree'. To be fair, the paper ran a great obit in 2013, describing how she travelled to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1945 - with a suitcase of ham and sausages because

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@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes On Mother's Day, I'm thinking of Mother Jones, born Mary Harris in Cork in 1837, the trade unionist so effective she was labelled 'most dangerous woman' in the US. Her adopted city Chicago is to honour her with a statue. Who’s on for a campaign to get one in Cork?

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@FinnClodagh

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#otd in 1863, Clotilde Graves was born in Buttevant, Cork. She was one of the first women journalists on Fleet St. She wore her hair short, dressed liked a man, smoked and was 'quite one of us', an editor wrote in 1890. She was also a playwright & novelist. #journalismmatters

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#ThroughHerEyes When Vivien Leigh was admitted to Netherne hospital after suffering with her mental health while filming Elephant Walk in the 1950s, she was nursed by two Irish sisters - real sisters, Maureen and Kathleen Barrett from Galway. One did the day shift, the other

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What happy news. First crane chicks in Ireland for over 300 years. In medieval Ireland, cranes were one of the most popular pets and, if you were a female saint/religious woman, you might have kept one to take the eye out of unwanted suitors!

First birth of crane chicks in Ireland for over 300 years recorded

Sadly, one chick disappeared shortly after first being seen in May and the second chick has not been seen since late June

www.irishexaminer.com

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Clodagh Finn

@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes #otd in 1955, Kathleen Lynn, Easter Rising participant, women and workers' rights campaigner and pioneering doctor, died. She and her partner in work and life Madeleine french-Mullen set up St Ultan's hospital to care for children such as these malnourished babies

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@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes diary Rosie Hackett (1893-1976), trade unionist and co-founder of the Irish Women Worker's Union. She worked at Jacobs' biscuits where Jim Larkin said conditions would send workers 'from this earth 20 years before their time’. 1/2

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#ThroughHerEyes Jane Moor Fisher of Youghal, philanthropist, famine relief worker, anti-slavery campaigner and mother of 17 children, including Anna Haslam one of the great campaigners for women's votes in Ireland in the 19th century.

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#ThroughHerEyes diary A very happy Christmas to everyone and a huge thank you to all who have engaged with this account. I'm calling again for retweets and followers as I'm hoping to celebrate as many women as possible in 2022, here and in a new project. Many, many thanks. 🙏

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@FinnClodagh

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#ThroughHerEyes #otd in 1916 Grace Gifford married Joseph Mary Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol hours before he was executed. She was an artist, caricaturist and costume designer for the Abbey. When jailed after a protest in 1923, she painted the 'Kilmainham Madonna' on her cell wall.

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