Pioneering spirit – An Irishman’s Diary on feminist and trade unionist Louie Bennett

Padraigín Ní Mhurchú obituary: Formidable workers’ representative

Setting standards and challenging assumptions became the hallmark of Ní Mhurchú’s life

Government holds first talks with nursing unions on new contract

Nurses would be permitted to move on to enhanced salary scale under proposed deal

Was 1918 a false dawn for Irish women?

Women’s rights were marginalised in Free State, with implications to present day

Helena Molony: A persistent fighter for working women

Vote 100: The life-long trade unionist advocated for improved conditions and representation for women

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

Anti-conscription campaign Ireland’s most complete, and bloodless, victory over British imperialism

The Irish labour movement’s leading role in the campaign proved a pyrrhic victory, creating internal tensions within trade unions and drawing hostility from their British counterparts

25 fearless women who helped shape today’s Ireland

They smashed stereotypes, changed Ireland – yet many are forgotten by history

13 curious facts about Temple Bar: Hell, a bell and a fly’s whiskers

The author of a new book on Dublin’s cultural quarter reveals some of its more obscure details and the historic figures associated with many of its buildings

From Cumann na nBan to de Valera’s constitution: rebel women betrayed

Ireland’s mixed messages to women and the knowledge that rights for which my grandmother’s cousin was ready to die were denied to generations inspired A Woven Silence

Why did no women speak at the Rosie Hackett Bridge opening?

Labour Youth who campaigned for woman’s name say lack of female speakers was ‘ironic’

River Liffey’s newest bridge to open on May 20th

Rosie Hackett Bridge took more than two and a half years to build

History of the Rising, in our own words

A project at Trinity College Dublin invites people to share family stories and documents and help put ordinary faces on the tumult of the early 20th century

Contemporary social democrats are deriving their own lessons from 1913

Opinion: Events of the year concerned not just class struggle but the right to citizenship