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<p>Looking for a deeper understanding of the stories that matter?</p><p>The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast takes you inside the best Irish Examiner reporting — from Cork courts to global affairs and powerful personal stories. </p><p>With award‑winning journalists and exclusive voices you won’t hear anywhere else.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 30, 2026
An Irishwoman’s Diary Episode 11: An actress and a trend-setter - Genevieve Lyons
<p>This is series 2 of An Irishwoman’s Diary from The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast, search in your podcast app for An Irishwoman’s Diary to find the six-episode Series 1. </p><p>A precursor of Cabaret, the show about ‘a bad girl with a heart of gold’, became the go-to show in Dublin for a brief period in the 1950s, against all the prevailing morals of the time.</p><p>Asked later why it hadn’t been banned, as JP Donleavy’s The Gingerman was, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid pointed out that the character of Sally Bowles wasn’t Irish, and therefore didn’t present a threat to the morality of Irish women.</p><p>The star of both shows was Genevieve Lyons, an actor, theatre maker and writer who lived a very unconventional life. Her performance as Sally Bowles caused a brief craze for berets in fashion starved Dublin, and she wrote many books – one, about the famine, owed its name to Princess Margaret.</p><p>In this episode Clodagh Finn recounts the story of a self-described “lunatic traveller” who though often penniless followed her creative dreams.</p><p><a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41797169.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clodagh Finn: The Irish woman who made ‘Cabaret’ a hit in Ireland long before the Broadway musical</a></p><p><a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41847396.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">An Irishwoman's Diary series 1: Meet the Irish women who left their mark on history</a></p><p> </p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 28, 2026
An Irishwoman’s Diary Episode10: An intrepid war reporter - Gertude Gaffney
<p>This is series 2 of An Irishwoman’s Diary from The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast, search in your podcast app for An Irishwoman’s Diary to find the six-episode Series 1. </p><p>Once described as “Ireland’s ablest female journalist”, the exploits of war correspondent Gertrude Gaffney have been largely lost to history.</p><p>Her travels throughout Europe – on the front in the Spanish Civil War, in Gdansk as the Germans approached, and at the Maginot line in 1940 – were chronicled in the Irish Independent.</p><p>Clodagh Finn shares the story of this incredible journalist whose work brought the sights and sounds of World War Two right onto kitchen tables throughout Ireland.</p><p><a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41809283.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clodagh Finn: Gertrude Gaffney — intrepid war correspondent and Ireland’s ‘ablest woman journalist’</a></p><p><a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41847396.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">An Irishwoman's Diary series 1: Meet the Irish women who left their mark on history</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 26, 2026
An Irishwoman’s Diary Episode 9: Queen Elizabeth’s ‘angel of peace’ - Countess Joan Fitzgerald
<p>This is series 2 of An Irishwoman’s Diary from The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast, search in your podcast app for An Irishwoman’s Diary to find the six-episode Series 1. </p><p>Countess Joan Fitzgerald was a pivotal figure in medieval Ireland, immensely wealthy and powerful, but as a woman it was her marriages that defined her power.</p><p>From the immensely wealthy Fitzgerald family – the Desmonds of Munster, who owned ten castles, her first marriage at age 16 was to James Butler, an Ormond of Kilkenny, aimed at linking the two great Houses.</p><p>His death by poisoning caused some concerns in London – she was too powerful to be left to her own devices – and she was married off to an Englishman, Sir Francis Bryan, who was referred to by Henry VIII as his ‘Vicar of Hell’.</p><p>She chose her own third husband from among her own allegiances, and made peace between the warring Ormonds and Desmonds, later being described by Queen Elizabeth as ‘the angel of peace’. The peace she negotiated fell apart just a month after her death.</p><p>Read Clodagh’s column here: <a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40325696.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clodagh Finn: Formidable medieval women deserve much more recognition</a></p><p><a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41847396.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">An Irishwoman's Diary series 1: Meet the Irish women who left their mark on history</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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<p>Looking for a deeper understanding of the stories that matter?</p><p>The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast takes you inside the best Irish Examiner reporting — from Cork courts to global affairs and powerful personal stories. </p><p>With award‑winning journalists and exclusive voices you won’t hear anywhere else.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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