The Women's Podcast
Episodes
Ep 274 Accessing Abortion Services & 'Blazing a Trail' Exhibition
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Abortion became legal in Ireland on New Year's day. On today's show, Róisín finds out everything a person facing an unplanned pregnancy needs to kno...
Ep 273 "We laughed about it because it was the only way to talk about it"
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Irish author Emilie Pine chats to Kathy about her collection of highly personal essays, Notes to Self, published by Tramp Press. The book deals with t...
Ep 272 Repost: Simon Harris, Ailbhe Smyth & Marian Keyes
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Before we get back into the studio after our Christmas break, we're reposting this episode from earlier this year - Monday 28th May to be exact. Healt...
Ep 271 Looking Back at 2018 for Women
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018 brought us the referendum to repeal the 8th amendment, it saw Vicky Phelan blow the CervicalCheck scandal wide open and the Irish Women’s Hocke...
Ep 270 Elizabeth O’Kelly: The Irish Orphan Who Gave Away €30m
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Times journalist Rosita Boland reads an article she wrote about Elizabeth O’Kelly, the little-known Irish philanthropist who, it was revealed ...
Ep 269 Christmas, Really...Meditations on the Festive Season
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, we bring you thoughts about Christmas from some of the women who have appeared on the podcast in the past. They include stories by th...
Ep 268 Book Club: Michelle Obama, Becoming
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Róisín reconvened the Women’s Podcast Book Club recently to give Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming the once over. It's hardly a spoiler to say that...
Ep 267 What brings Nurses from Kerala to Ireland?
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of Indian nurses working in Ireland come from one small part of southwestern India called Kerala. Why Ireland? And, what is it like ...
Ep 266 Zhanna & Conor O'Clery / Should We Feel Sorry for Theresa May?
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Kathy speaks to Conor O’Clery, the former Irish Times foreign correspondent, and his wife, Zhanna, who met in Moscow in the heady days of gla...
Ep 265 Invisible Women? The Women’s Podcast at The National Gallery
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday December 10th, The Irish Times marks 100 years since the 1918 election, with a magazine and unique commemorative poster featuring a speciall...
Ep 264 Maggie O'Kane on FGM & Foreign Correspondents / Michelle Obama in London
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kathy Sheridan is back in the driving seat and in this week's episode she talks to the Belfast-born award winning foreign correspondent and FGM activi...
Ep 263 'Chicks can't code? Well I can': Christine Comaford on her Life & Emotional Resilience
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Comaford has lived many lives. She has been a serial entrepreneur, technology and CEO advisor, venture capitalist and was an engineer in the...
Ep 262 Glamour Editor-In-Chief Samantha Barry
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Cork woman Samantha Barry took over at the helm of the US magazine Glamour this year, she became only its 8th editor since it was first printed i...
Ep 261 RTÉ's Katie Hannon on Maurice McCabe & telling important stories
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For over four years RTÉ Prime Time’s political correspondent Katie Hannon forensically pursued the story of Maurice McCabe, breaking a number of ma...
Ep 260 Gráinne Mhaol, Pirate Queen & What would the Spice Girls Do?
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Chambers's biography of Grace O'Malley, the 16th-century pirate queen, has never been out of print in the 40 years since it was first published, ...
Ep 259 Commando Queen Kerry O’Brien
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The morning after the September 11th attacks in New York, Kerry O’Brien quit her job as a senior vice president at one of the world’s largest publ...
Ep 258 Jennifer Willis on Surviving Sexual Abuse / Dublin Feminist Film Festival
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Willis shot to fame as one of The Willis Clan when they appeared on America’s Got Talent and a subsequent reality TV show about the 12 sibl...
Ep 257 'How to be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings'
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ambitious women are scary, right? Female leaders must do everything they can to avoid being perceived as pushy, aggressive, or competent. Comedian, bl...
Ep 256 Women's Mental Health: Out of Silence & Marian Keyes at the Safe World Summit
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The “Out of Silence” report published by the National Women's Council this week documents for the very first time the specific mental health needs...
Ep 255 Suzanne Connolly, Luke & Ryan Hart
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On today's podcast we bring you a talk by Luke and Ryan Hart, who say people must be braver about confronting domestic abuse when they see it.The brot...
Ep 254 Mona Eltahawy on The Patriarchy
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we bring you a talk by Egyptian feminist activist Mona Eltahawy who spoke recently in Dublin at the International Safe World Summit on...
Ep 253 Susan Wood: Photographer, Journalist, Feminist
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Wood is an American photographer most notable for her work on location of the 1969 film Easy Rider – starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. I...
Ep 252 Eve Was Shamed & Deeds Not Words
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest book, Eve Was Shamed, British barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy QC forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still ...
Ep 251 Rebecca Bourke, IFTA Winning Producer of Wave
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From a very young age Rebecca Bourke knew that she wanted to be in the film industry in some capacity. Her dad convinced her to give college a go as a...
Ep 250 Domestic Violence Sentencing & UNFPA Global Fertility Report
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Róisín talks to Women's Aid director Margaret Martin about domestic violence sentencing and how it affects victims. The conversation comes in the wa...
Ep 249 Violette: Global Beauty Director of Estée Lauder & Her.ie Sex Survey
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Self-taught makeup artist Violette talks to Róisín Ingle at the BT Style Summit about her career, which led her to become Global Beauty Director of ...
Ep 248 Scarlett Curtis & Evanna Lynch: Feminists Don't Wear Pink
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies) is a collection of writing from extraordinary women - from Hollywood actresses, to teenage activists - each...
Ep 247 'I was more afraid of being afraid for the rest of my life, than I was of him'
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ailbhe Griffith was 21 years old when she was subjected to a violent sexual assault by a man on her way home from work in 2005. Her attacker was caugh...
Ep 246 Maeve Binchy's 'Quiet Feminism' & Katie Jane Hughes
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Feminism might not be something often associated with Maeve Binchy's writing, but looking back on her work now it's so obviously there. Ahead of the E...
Ep 245 Book Club: The Country Girls
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our Book Clubbers Irish Times journalists Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey and septuagenarian book lover Ann Ingle discuss The Country Girls by Edna O...
Ep 244 ARC March for Choice & Charlotte Tilbury
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Roisin Ingle talks to Sarah Monaghan from the Abortion Rights Campaign about the 7th ARC March for Choice which is taking place at 2p...
Ep 243 HEROIN: Grace Dyas and Rachael Keogh
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"HEROIN is the story you were never told about the republic that never happened, of the person you never saw, of what we built and then demolished. It...
Ep 242 Anna Parnell / The Irish Women who Helped Frederick Douglass
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, Róisín hears about Anna Parnell, pioneering Irish feminist, founder of the Ladies Land League and younger sister of Irish Nationali...
Ep 241 BILLY, Gina Moxley, CervicalCheck Scally Report & Serena Williams
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, Róisín Ingle talks to Alice Malseed and Sarah Gordon about their hilarious Fringe Festival production, BILLY, which takes a disbeli...
Ep 240 The Women’s Caucus
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s first gathering of women’s parliamentary groups is being held in Dublin Castle as part of its commemoration of a centenary of female s...
Ep 239 Child sexual abuse survivor Suzanne Connolly & Dublin Fringe Festival
06 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Belfast woman Suzanne Connolly was 11 when her adoptive father John Rossi began sexually abusing her. He did so almost daily until she was 14 when aft...
Ep 238 Interview: German Ambassador to Ireland, Deike Potzel
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The German Ambassador to Ireland, Deike Potzel, has been touring the country since her appointment last November in a bid to learn about Ireland from ...
Ep 237 The Papal Visit
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pope Francis touches down on Irish soil this Saturday morning 25th August, for the second papal visit in Ireland's history. For many Catholics this is...
Ep 236 Rachel Flaherty on changing her attitude to food & Women in an Equal Europe
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Times journalist Rachel Flaherty did what many people are understandably wary of doing, she opened up about her unhealthy relationship with food...
Ep 235 Honouring Ireland's Hockey Heroines
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In case you missed, it the Irish women’s hockey team made history last week, becoming the first Irish team ever to reach a world cup final. They los...
Ep 234 Lost Letters of William Woolf & Textile Queen Lucienne Day
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Roisin Ingle talks to Portlaoise novelist Helen Cullen who is causing a stir with her debut novel The Lost Letters of Willia...
Ep 233 Dr Brenda Donohue & Lynne Parker on Gender in Theatre
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ten of Ireland's leading theatres, drama festivals and theatre companies have agreed to a range of gender equality policies, which in some cases will ...
Ep 232 Most Memorable Summer Holidays
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From Margaret Atwood's adventurous canoe trip in the Canadian Wilderness, to Alison Spittle's irate naked granny, to Lisa Dwan's near-death brush with...
Ep 231 Women of the World Cup & President Obama's Stenographer
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sexism has been a bigger problem than racism at the World Cup in Russia, according to anti-discrimination experts advising FIFA. There have been repor...
Ep 230 Misadventures in Tinderland & Emma Brockes "Excellent Choice"
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gone are the days when online dating was viewed with judgement or derision. Now, it's where hot young things seek out consensual one-night stands, whe...
Ep 229 LIVE: The People Have Spoken, at Body & Soul
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode was recorded in front an audience on the Woodlands Stage at the Body & Soul festival last weekend. The topic was Ireland after the #8t...
Ep 228 Young Women & Suicide: Kitty Holland & Prof Veronica O'Keane
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Irish Times Social Affairs Correspondent Kitty Holland wrote about the increase in the number of young women taking their own lives in some ...
Ep 227 MacGill: We Need to Talk about Manels / Women Street Performers
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Mulholland, director of the MacGill Summer School, has apologised for the lack of gender balance on its 2018 and promised there will now be panels...
Ep 226 'No Country For Women': 100 Years of Irish Women's Lives
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A two part documentary charting the lives of Irish women over the last century begins on RTÉ One on Tuesday (19 June) at 9.35pm. 'No Country For Wome...
Ep 225 Imogen Heap on music, technology & mentoring younger artists
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Imogen Heap is an Grammy-winning songwriter and performer, who has worked with everyone from Taylor Swift to Jeff Beck. An early adopter of technology...
Ep 224 Meg Wolitzer: 'It's weird that #MeToo happened when my book came out'
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of several acclaimed novels, including The Interestings, The Uncoupling and The Wife. One of h...
Ep 223 Fair Plé to the "Lovely Girls" of Trad & Folk Music
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Waking the Feminists shone a light on the representation of women in Irish theatre. Now, women in Irish traditional and folk music are trying to addre...
Ep 222 Book Club: Lullaby, by Leila Slimani
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The book being reviewed today, a tense, deftly written novel about an apparently perfect nanny’s transition into a monster, will take your breath aw...
Ep 221 'I won't let fear control me. If I don’t speak, who will speak?'
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal has been called a terrorist by the Turkish state. Her house, with her two young children inside, has been stormed by ...
Ep 220 Simon Harris: ‘I’m going to get this right for Irish women and doctors’
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Minister for Health Simon Harris speaks to Kathy Sheridan in this episode, telling her that legislating for abortion is his “number one priority” ...
Ep 219 #8thRef Eve: 'It was a pre-emptive strike against women’s liberation'
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On #8thRef Eve, we invited three women into studio to reflect on the campaign with Kathy Sheridan. Straight from doing her rounds at the National Mate...
Ep 218 #8thRef: The Facts
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As Ireland prepares to go to the polls in a once in a generation referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution this Friday, Irish Times polit...
Ep 217 Canvassing on the #8thRef & Brianna Parkins
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the past couple of weeks, and even months in some cases, canvassers have been working hard on either side of next week's referendum on the Eighth ...
Ep 216 'Ordinary Women' and the 8th Referendum
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As a crisis pregnancy counsellor with One Family, Marguerite McCarthy has seen and heard it all when it comes to women and pregnancy. She speaks to Ka...
Ep 215 ‘I’m not finished telling Ann Lovett’s story’
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“He needed to be heard, after 34 years of silence,” says Irish Times journalist Rosita Boland, of her interview in last Saturday’s paper with Ri...
Ep 214 ‘We disagree on the referendum, but we’re still friends’
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
79-year-old friends, Ann Ingle and Mary Fleming, are on opposite sides when it comes to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, wh...
Ep 213 'A strong female leader is nothing to be afraid of'
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, Ciairín de Bush was appointed CEO of Women for Election, the not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation helping to get more women i...
Ep 212 'I See You': Amy de Bhrún & Roxanna Nic Liam on Mary Heath
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irish actor Amy de Bhrún has been in Vikings, Coronation Street and the most recent Jason Bourne film. Next week she returns to the theatre with a fe...
Ep 211 Jennifer Palmieri - Hillary Clinton Advisor
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Well over a year since we were shocked to our cores by Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 US Election, we still can't quite stop talking about it or...
Ep 210 Women's Aid & Lily Pebbles
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Later in this episode, co-producer Jennifer Ryan talks to lifestyle blogger Lily Pebbles about her book about female friendships, The F Word. But firs...
Ep 209 Women who are 'New to the Parish'
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Times journalist Sorcha Pollak is the writer of the weekly New to the Parish series, which focuses on migration and immigrant communities in Ire...
Ep 208 The 1983 Abortion Referendum: Letters to the Irish Times
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, we go time travelling back to the Ireland of 1983, to the unusually hot summer and autumn of that year, in the run up to the conte...
Ep 207 'I made myself visible & declared that I wanted to be CEO'
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We joined forces with the Dublin Dress for Success campaign to mark the end of another successful fundraising and clothing drive, recording an episode...
Ep 206 'She was Ann Rose Lovett, mother to Pat'
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Little over 34 years ago, a 15-year-old girl died after giving birth at a grotto in the small town of Granard in Co. Longford on a freezing cold, wet ...
Ep 205 Reflecting on the Repeal movement
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Repeal the 8th: the anthology, is a collection of stories, essays, poetry and photography around the movement for reproductive rights in Ireland, edit...
Ep 204 Book Club: The Wild Other, Clover Stroud
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Roisin Ingle is joined by Irish Times journalists Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey for a meeting of the Women's Podcast book club to discuss Clover St...
Ep 203 The Belfast Rape Trial
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Times reporter Conor Gallagher speaks to Kathy Sheridan about the Belfast rape trial that he has covered over the past nine weeks, which has dom...
Ep 202 Living with Endometriosis
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One in 10 women have endometriosis, making it one of the most commonly seen gynaecological diseases, yet it is poorly understood and not commonly talk...
Ep 201 The Eighth: A podcast examining both sides of the referendum
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With the referendum looming, the HeadStuff Podcast Network is launching a new series documenting the campaigning around the Eighth Amendment to the c...
Ep 200 'Invisible Girls' & Secret Lives: Women and Autism
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, 27-year-old Méabh Ni Choileáin got in touch with us with the story of her autism diagnosis. After more than two decades of feeling ...
Ep 199 Fifteen 'Unmanageable Sisters' at The Abbey
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1968, the Quebecois playwright Michel Tremblay broke new ground with his play Les Belles-soeurs, putting 15 working-class Montreal women on the sta...
Ep 198 Lean Out: Women & Economics
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If women were more present in debates about economics and policy formulation, would the questions that we ask be different and informed by women's liv...
Ep 197 What's She Doing Here? (And, How Did She Get Here?)
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate International Women's Day, we gathered a gang of formidable women making it in male-dominated careers to find out about their 'What's she...
Ep 196 Women Writers We Love
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Beast from the East saw our presenter stranded abroad, while the production team had a glimpse into the lives of those people who "work from home"...
Ep 164 Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the UN
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The youngest-ever U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, Samantha Power, who emigrated from Ireland to America at the age of nin...
Ep 144 Remembering Diana
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's 20 years since Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31st 1997. In this episode, Róisín Ingle recalls reporting on her de...
Ep 56 Herstory Salon: Hilary Fannin, Dr Jennifer Redmond & Prof Linda Doyle. Music from MayKay
02 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast was recorded in The Irish Times as part of Culture Night in association with the Herstory movement. In what is the first of a seri...
Ep 40 Story Times: Kitty Holland, Catherine Cleary. Olivia O'Leary, Anne Harris & more
12 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's 10 years since The Irish Times moved from Fleet Street in Dublin to our current offices in a shiny tower of glass on Tara Street. To mark the mov...