Irish revolutionary Madeleine ffrench-Mullen to be honoured with plaque at childhood home
Ffrench-Mullen with her lover Dr Kathleen Lynn founded St Ultan’s Hospital for children in Dublin
Kathleen Lynn
Kathleen Lynn Hospital, Dolores O’Riordan Park and Catherine Corless Place: Readers on how we should honour Irish women
We asked Irish Times readers if there were any streets, buildings, places or structures in Ireland that they thought should be named, or renamed, after women
Emma Donoghue: ‘With birth, it’s a real spin of the roulette wheel. Women’s lives have always been determined by this crapshoot’
The writer on her new stage adaptation of The Pull of the Stars, her novel set over three feverish days in the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital
Lavery, Yeats and le Brocquy beat estimates in first sales of the year
Irish banknotes also beat expectations in strong sale
1916 medal of ‘doctor and belligerent’ Kathleen Lynn for sale
Dr Lynn’s 1916 Rising Service Medal for sale with €20k-€30k estimate
Treaty details signal the end of unity in Cumann na mBan
Majority of women in the organisation voted in February 1922 to reject the terms offered as did the six women TDs in Dáil
The exceptionalism of daughters of the Irish clergymen
Daughters were expected to earn their own living. Education was a priority
Links to slave trade evident across Ireland
‘The Irish tended to have a very strongly held belief in their own white racial superiority’
Coronavirus: forgotten lessons of the Spanish flu pandemic
There’s a ‘collective amnesia’ in Ireland around the deadly outbreak of 1918-19
Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church
A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views
A new map of Ireland: Honouring some of our outstanding women
We propose sites for new street names, sculptures for International Women’s Day
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s education system was rigid and violent
Brutality lingered as a set of attitudes long after it was banished as official practice
Deaf ears: The archbishop who blocked a children’s hospital
In this imagined conversation, Dr Kathleen Lynn pleads with archbishop Edward Byrne
Healthcare in the War of Independence: St Ultan’s children’s hospital
Dublin’s infant mortality rate was abnormally high when two women opened a hospital for infants on Charlemont Street, with £100 and two cots
Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
Artist achieved success in her lifetime only to be relatively forgotten in death
Options are limited for raising funds for children’s hospital
State may sell off the name of the flagship building
Was 1918 a false dawn for Irish women?
Women’s rights were marginalised in Free State, with implications to present day
Ivana Bacik: We need to hold true to the feminist ideals of the suffragists
Vote 100: Much has improved for women in Ireland in a century, but there is also much still to do
Kathleen Lynn: Pioneering doctor, socialist and public-health campaigner
Vote 100: Founder of St Ultan’s children’s hospital looked for political and pragmatic solutions to deprivation
Archaeological search at City Hall for lost Easter Rising rifle
Rifle may have been lodged in gap between City Hall and another building for over 100 years
In St James’s hospital, coffins were stacked up to 18-high in the mortuary
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 devastated Ireland – with more than 20,000 deaths and 800,000 infected, it permeated every layer of society and silenced whole communities as it passed through
25 fearless women who helped shape today’s Ireland
They smashed stereotypes, changed Ireland – yet many are forgotten by history
First female president of Royal College of Physicians is set to take office
Prof Mary Horgan backs vaccine use and does not consider herself a feminist
Obituary: Bishop Donald Caird
During the ‘peace process’ Caird reflected the outlook of Southern members of the Church of Ireland
Rising poem: Patrick Pearse, A Manifesto by Paul Muldoon
A special commission for the centenary of the 1916 Rising
St John Ambulance and the Easter Rising
During the Rising, 15 ambulances were provided as were female nurses and men to staff the hospitals
1916: Diary of rebel doctor Kathleen Lynn
In the week leading up to the Easter Rising, Lynn used her car to run guns into Dublin
President honours role of women in creating Ireland of today
Event at Kilmainham celebrates achievements of women from 1916 on
Life and death: the Rotunda and the Rising
Women dodged bullets during Easter week 1916 to walk to the Rotunda to give birth. An exhibition tells the remarkable stories of five women linked to the hospital
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