The Women of Ireland Project

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• ‘Bloody Resourceful Women’: The herstory of black pudding

  September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

  A conversation about black pudding sounds very niche and possibly even a bit ‘off piste’ for the usual Women of Ireland Project content. However, what really struck me as I read Kate Ryan’s new book, Blood, Guts and Black Pudding…

• How Masculinity Shaped Modern Irish Identity

  August 2, 2026 · 56 min

  What have anxieties about Irish men’s masculinity and their masculine strength got to do with how Irish national identity was constructed and created in the 19th and 20th century? And how did that history shape the lives of women in the…

• Beyond the rose-tinted veil: meet the real women of medieval Ireland

  July 5, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

  Listen in for stories about soldiers for dowries, women running taverns under Christ Church Cathedral, the first woman to build a castle in Ireland before throwing her architect lover out the window, the life and times of Gráinne O’Malley…

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