Gertrude Gaffney — intrepid war correspondent and Ireland’s ‘ablest woman journalist’
If Gertrude Gaffney, once described as “Ireland’s ablest female journalist”, were alive today she would surely be reporting…
The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet
Strong by name, formidable by nature. The business acumen, wiles and entrepreneurial genius of Catherine Strong, aka the…
The Irish woman who made ‘Cabaret’ a hit in Ireland long before the Broadway musical
I was gobsmacked to discover this: In 1950s Ireland, there was a run on Sally Bowles berets after…