The trailblazing women who breached the male-dominated world of Irish politics encountered sexism and prejudice – from both sexes, writes Martina Fitzgerald, in this edited extract from her new book

Simon Coveney rejects claim while canvassing with FF leader Micheál Martin in Cork

Breda O’Brien: Voting for abortion is voting for despair and overt trust in HSE

Veteran campaigner compares abortion to the mass slaughter at the Somme

No conversation about abortion is complete without celebration of the magnificent plenitude of conception, pregnancy and motherhood

How much has Ireland really changed since the Joanne Hayes, Ann Lovett and X cases?

2018 should be year women are afforded ‘high place in the councils’ of a free Ireland

March for Choice: ‘Free, safe, legal’ is the slogan as thousands muster in Dublin

The late American feminist was committed to an Irish mental hospital and rescued by friends

Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton flew into Ireland as guest of Bono

Obituary: Brendan Duddy – Born June 10th, 1936 – Died May 12th, 2017

Mourners told of Duddy’s role as intermediary between IRA and British government

The Women’s Podcast celebrates its 100th episode with 100 quotes by and about women in Ireland

Ruthless he was, but crude stereotypes do not do justice to the man or the times

This documentary about Prof Ivor Browne portrays a divisive figure in a playful way, and is alive to his flaws as his far-out ideas

Bogside-born campaigner one of four figures to receive honorary doctorates

In 2013 Nora Hickey M’Sichili got her dream job of running the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the French capital. Have recent events changed the tone?

Writer created male alter ego to find an agent, talks about what happened next

The women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stage

For eight years, journalist wrote her column In the Eyes of the Law for this newspaper

A new book by the cultural historian Terence Brown explores this newspaper’s role in Irish life. In these extracts he explores how the paper chronicled modernity, championed women and exposed links between business and politics

Traditional music in Bantry, Baroque music in Ardee and Crafts & Design at Ballymaloe

The Limerick woman believes in taking things gently even as she pushes for equality

National public airing of principle of unity by consent

A new book lists 31 definitive texts. Are the authors right? And what should be the 32nd?

Court could be part of ‘one-stop shop’ of immediate remedies for minor offenders

Hugo Hamilton’s new book travels into strange and slightly spooky literary territory. It’s a fictionalised account of a trip to Berlin that he made with his fellow writer Nuala O’Faolain just before her death, from cancer, in May 2008

SF president to see Aosdána member suffering cancer who refuses to sign bail bond

We need more women in high-ranking positions in journalism so the public can see itself reflected

Funeral Mass for poet to be held in Donnybrook before burial in his native Co Derry

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Vincent Browne lorded it over his hapless guests in a self-aggrandising panel show, and the writers of Southcliffe mercilessly played with the viewers’ emotions

TV3 series will discuss Sindo’s 2007 support for Bertie and Louis Walsh’s libel case

How does a theatre’s marketing affect the meaning of a play?

How does a theatre’s marketing affect the meaning of a play?

Opinion: The achievements of the 20th century were extraordinary, but today’s feminists have much to pursue

How a quiet mother of four took on the State in the Supreme Court and won

Our obsession with ‘Foxy Knoxy’ says more about us than it does about her