Wild Irish Women Archive
Kate Gleason: A Century Ahead of Her Time
Even in recent decades, women engineers have at times felt like they’re trying to make…
Wild Irish Women | Nell McCafferty
“You never knew what she would say next.” Though she stood just under 4’11”, Nell…
Mairéad Farrell: A Fanatic Heart
On March 6, 1988, in the shadow of the rock of Gibraltar, British Special Air…
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Nora Joyce: The Girl from Galway
Nora Barnacle was 20 when she arrived in Dublin and met James Joyce in 1904. She had run away from Galway, her absentee mother, her strict uncles, and her friends, […]
Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist
“How can you help writing about something you feel intensely?” Ireland may have more poets than any other Western nation, but Lola Ridge remains in absentia on lists of Irish […]
The Uncrowned Queen Of Ireland
— Well I let her bawl away, to her heart’s content Kitty O’Shea and the rest of it until she called that lady a name that I won’t sully this […]
The Life And Adventures of Kit Cavanagh
How the search for her missing husband turned this Irish wife and mother into a daring and dauntless soldier. She was born Christian Cavanagh in 1667, although throughout her life, […]
Touched by Fire
Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour. The Truly Great, by Stephen Spender Sinéad O’Connor who […]
Wild Irish Women: Bernadette
After 800 years of colonial rule, Ireland finally got conditional freedom and fell victim to the British Empire’s deadliest legacy, partition. In the six northern counties, bigotry and resentment simmered […]