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Watch: Herstory: Ireland's Epic Women - Kay McNulty

This six-part documentary series tells the stories of compelling Irish women from history, exploring Irish culture, heritage, innovation and experience - past and present - through a uniquely female lens.

Podcast: Carmel Snow - the original fashion powerhouse

Herstory on RTÉ - celebrating Ireland's epic women

Young activist Greta Thunberg

Herstory workshops for Primary & Secondary schools

Blazing a Trail - inside the exhibition at EPIC Museum

Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan at the first meeting of The Peace People in Belfast, circa 1976

Women and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Herstory: Ireland's Epic Women - the TV series.

Lady Mary Heath by Lauren O Neill

Herstory: Lady Mary Heath

Kathleen 'Kay' McNulty by Lauren O Neill

Herstory: Kay McNulty

Mother Jones by Lauren O Neill

Herstory: Mary Harris Jones (aka Mother Jones)

Ninette de Valois by Lauren O Neill

Herstory: Dame Ninette de Valois

Dame Ninette de Valois

Oonah Keogh by Lauren O Neill

Herstory: Oonah Keogh

Herstory: James Barry

Herstory Animated: Who's Your Heroine?.

Who's Your Heroine? Máire Ni Chinneide

Who's Your Heroine? Dr. Norah Patten

Who's Your Heroine? The Irish Granny

Who's Your Heroine? Lillian Bland

Who's Your Heroine? Mary Elmes

Who's Your Heroine? Laura Geraldine Lennox

Herstory: Ireland's Epic Women - the podcast .

Podcast: Maeve Brennan: The Big Apple's Careful Observer

Podcast: Lady Jane Wilde - A Hopeful Poet

Herstory podcasts

Podcast: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - The Rebel Girl

Podcast: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington - the independent woman

Podcast: Carmel Snow - the original fashion powerhouse

Podcast: Doris Fleeson - a watchdog feared by powerful men

Podcast: Eva Gore-Booth: the poet who mobilised the marginalised

Podcast: Lizzie le Blond - a mountaineering pioneer

Podcast: Eliza Lynch - The Queen of Paraguay

Herstory Illuminated.

Una Watters by Rebecca Sodergard

Herstory Illuminated: Una Watters

Nana Bridie by Kelly O Dowd

Herstory Illuminated: Nana Bridie

Giuseppina Rocca by Sophie Scally and Nadine Reily

Herstory Illuminated: Giuseppina Rocca

Herstory Illuminated: Captain Elaine Egan

Herstory Illuminated: Dr. Susan Crawford

Brenda the Brave (& Fionn) by Kenya Dempsey

Herstory Illuminated: Brenda The Brave

Epic Women In Profile.

Herstory: Lady Jane Wilde

She was an early advocate of women's rights, and campaigned ...

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Herstory: Constance Wilde-Holland

Constance Wilde-Holland was an early advocate of women's rights, and ...

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Herstory: Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe

Cuffe was a talented artist who produced hundreds of botanical ...

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Herstory: Sheila Tinney

Sheila Tinney (née Power) is believed to have been the ...

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Herstory: Carmel Snow

Before there was Anna Wintour, the fashion industry was ruled ...

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Herstory: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington

Even great personal tragedy did not diminish her fervour in ...

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Herstory: Lola Ridge

A well-recognised feminist poet and modernist in her own lifetime, ...

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Herstory: Ada Rehan

Ada Rehan was once one of Ireland's most celebrated actresses, ...

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Herstory: Peg Plunkett

Peg Plunkett was the most famous brothel madam in Georgian ...

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Herstory: Mary Bridget Pearse

Mary Brigid spent much of her time writing short stories, ...

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Herstory: Margaret Mary Pearse

Margaret Pearse was the older sister of Irish patriots Patrick ...

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Herstory: Fanny Isabel Parnell

Fanny Isabel Parnell's poetry was celebrated by Irish nationalists and ...

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Herstory: Sheelagh Murnaghan

"In Northern Ireland politics, I don't know which is the ...

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Herstory: Kay Mills

If camogie was an Olympic sport, Kay Mills would still ...

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Herstory: Mary Ann McCracken

A short obituary fondly described Mary's "ardent charity, her large ...

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Herstory: Nellie McClung

Nellie McClung, Canada's leading suffragist, the first woman to sit ...

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Herstory: Countess Markievicz

Markievicz is known first and foremost for her role in ...

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Herstory: Beatrice Hill-Lowe

Beatrice Geraldine Hill-Lowe from Ardee, Co Louth, Ireland's first female ...

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Herstory: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale

Lonsdale made important scientific contributions, published prolifically, and worked tirelessly ...

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Herstory: Christine Pakenham

Christine Pakenham, Countess of Longford, was a playwright and novelist ...

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Herstory: Lucy Wharton

Marchioness of Wharton, society hostess and vicereine of Ireland.

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Herstory: Winifred M. Letts

Winifred M. Letts was a published poet, novelist, playwright and ...

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Herstory: Mary Agnes Lee

Mary Agnes Lee's emphasis on social justice and her concerns ...

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Herstory: Mary Kane

Mary Kane joined Cumann na mBan in 1917, aged ten, ...

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Herstory: Dora Jordan

Dora Jordan, feted as one of the greatest comic actress ...

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Herstory: Katherine Jones

Katherine Jones, Viscountess of Ranelagh 'lived the longest on the ...

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Herstory: Fanny Jennings, Duchess of Tyrconnell

Fanny Jennings name became associated with the 'gallant efforts that ...

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Herstory: Helena Hegarty

A turning-point came in August 1925, when Helena Hegarty became ...

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Herstory: Josephine Hart

"Poetry, this trinity of sound, sense and sensibility gives voice ...

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Herstory: Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Sarah Cecilia Harrison was an artist and Friend of the ...

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Herstory: Lady Dufferin

So much more than a diplomatic wife, Lady Dufferin left ...

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Herstory: Agnes Gallagher

Agnes Gallagher is well known for her role in Ireland's ...

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Herstory: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Gurley Flynn started her activist life as a 16-year-old schoolgirl, ...

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Herstory: Doris Fleeson

Regarded by politicians and fellow journalists as one of the ...

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Herstory: Ada English

Ada English was one of Ireland's first female medical graduates, ...

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Herstory: Kathleen Delap

Delap became an influential leader within the ICA, whose progressive ...

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Herstory: Aleen Isabel Cust

Aleen Isabel Cust was a pioneer in the sphere of ...

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Herstory: Rhoda Coghill

From youthful beginnings as a piano prodigy to a career ...

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Herstory: Agnes Mary Clerke

Agnes Mary Clerke's obituary in The Times asserted, 'both from ...

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Herstory: Mabel Esmonde Cahill

Mabel Esmonde Cahill became the first non-American-and the only Irish ...

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Herstory: Mary Elmes

Mary Elmes has been called 'The Irish Oskar Schindler'.

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Herstory: Kay McNulty

We have Kathleen 'Kay' McNulty and six other people to ...

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Herstory: Eliza Lynch

Eliza Lynch, 'the Queen of Paraguay', was born in Charleville, ...

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Herstory: Cynthia Longfield

Cynthia Longfield's early love of nature and insects grew into ...

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Herstory: Elizabeth Le Blond

A trailblazer in the very literal sense of the word, ...

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Herstory: Lady Mary Heath

August 1925, A turning-point in history, when Lady Mary Heath ...

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Herstory: Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray gained a reputation as the finest Western exponent ...

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Herstory: Eva Gore-Booth

She collected 30,000 signatures for a suffrage petition in 1901, ...

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Herstory: Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth was one of the greatest intellectuals in Ireland ...

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Herstory: Sarah 'Fanny' Durack

Fanny's many successes inspired the public, who demanded that she ...

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Herstory: Dr. Isabel 'Ida' Mitchell

"I want to fight tuberculosis. It killed two millions in ...

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Herstory: Dame Ninette de Valois

To this day, the Irish born dancer, Dame Ninette de ...

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Herstory: Patricia Horne

Herstory: Patricia Horne is probably best known for her fundraising ...

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Herstory: Maeve Brennan

Herstory: Maeve Brennan (1917 - 1993): Writer

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Herstory: Lilian Bland

Herstory: Lilian Bland (1878 - 1971): Pioneering aviator, journalist, photographer ...

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Herstory: Annie Besant

Herstory: Annie Besant - 1847-1933: Secularist, politician, theosophist

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