"Presented in association with the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network Ireland, Jessamyn Fairfield, Rebecca O’Neill and Laura Finnegan discuss the awe-inspiring achievements of women in the history of science.
"Celebrating pioneering women scientists of the past both from Ireland and further afield, these three illustrated talks will include Dorothy Stopford Price, Maria Goeppert Mayer and Matilda Knowles."
"You might have heard of the father of modern chemistry Robert Boyle, but what of his brilliant elder sister Katherine Jones who was more famous than he was in the seventeenth century? Does the name Clotilde Graves ring a bell?
"The Cork-born writer was one of the first female journalists working on Fleet Street in London. Time travel with journalist and writer Clodagh Finn to discover some forgotten women in Irish history, from the Stone Age to the present."
"Journalist and author of new book Republic of Shame, Caelainn Hogan is joined by Sarah-Anne Buckley, lecturer in the Department of History at NUI Galway, and survivors of the Tuam mother-and-baby home to share the stories of ‘fallen women’ who were concealed, punished and exploited in Magdalene laundries.
"Mortality rates in these institutions were high, and the discovery of a mass infant grave at the mother-and-baby home in Tuam made news all over the world. The Irish state has commissioned investigations, but for countless people, a search for answers continues."
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