The Women's Podcast

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 doing here?' moments. Hosted by The Little Museum of Dublin, it comes ahead of a photographic exhibition of works by Beta Bjagart beginning there March 31st. On today's episode you'll hear from Bjargart, as well as lifeboat navigator Lisa Levins-Burgess, aircraft engineer Kate Melady and firefighter Teresa Hudson, in conversation with Kathy Sheridan about their inspirational jobs and why it is they do them.

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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". Determined not to let our listeners down however, Róisín recorded an episode in her bedroom in which she celebrates great female writers ahead of International Women's Day. In this podcast, you'll hear extracts from Olivia O'Leary's Party Animals, Maggie O'Farrell's contribution to Ann O'Donnell's book Mortification, Maeve Binchy's Baby Blue, an entry from Zlata Filipovic's Zlata's Diary and a taster from Louise O'Neill's new book Almost Love.And, stay tuned to the end of the podcast to hear Amanda Palmer's cover of The Cranberries No Need to Argue, in tribute to the late Dolores O'Riordan.

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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 nine, began her career as a foreign affairs journalist. Forbes has called her “a powerful crusader for US foreign policy as well as human rights and democracy,” and she was named one of Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” The Women’s Podcast was fortunate enough to get an hour of Ambassador Power’s time during her recent trip to Ireland. She spoke to Kathy Sheridan about her Irish roots, reporting from the Balkans during the Bosnian war, her feelings on Trump, how she made up with Hillary Clinton after calling her a monster, and lots more.

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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 death, while Jennifer Ryan speaks to people who knew her personally, and those who felt like they did. Arthur Edwards is The Sun's royal photographer and got to know Diana well throughout the nearly 20 years he spent photographing her. Elizabeth Emanuel designed many items of clothing Diana wore, including her wedding dress. Tipperary primary school principal Margaret Harty admired Diana from afar and Irish Times fashion journalist Deirdre McQuillan recalls how Diana used her clothing to send out signals about her life.

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In this episode, we are looking back at an event that happened on stage at the Olympia Theatre on Sunday April 23rd. It was a fundraiser for the Repeal Project and campaigners including Anna Cosgrave, Tara Flynn and Ailbhe Smyth spoke on the night. In this podcast we are bringing you a conversation and two spoken word pieces from the event. Later on you'll hear a poem from Una Mullally and also a spoken word piece from Felispeaks. First up is Ann Ingle in conversation with her daughter, our co-producer Róisín Ingle.

In the latest podcast, Róisín Ingle talks to the three female artists commissioned by Dublin Port and Business To Arts, to create works for the Port Perspectives project. The three were chosen out of around 100 applications to create public artworks and installations in the Dublin port area. Sheelagh Broderick is helping to connect walkers to the port through podcasts, Silvia Loeffler is carrying out a deep mapping of the area and Cliona Harmey is working with AEMI on a series of screenings and artist commissions.

Later in the podcast, Jennifer Ryan meets the founder of Nu. Ethical, a sustainable fashion community, to discuss Fashion Revolution Week. A series of events are being hosted across Ireland on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed 1,138 people and injured many more on 24th April 2013. People are also being encouraged to tweet #whomademyclothes accompanied by pictures of their clothing with the labels out.

On Saturday, April 8th, The Irish Times Magazine hosted an up close and personal conversation with Dawn O’Porter and Amy Huberman at a live afternoon event to celebrate the launch of The Cows, Dawn’s latest novel, published by Harper Collins at the Sugar Club in Dublin.

Dawn and Amy chatted about life, motherhood, feminism, Dawn’s hilarious new book and lots more. The Women's Podcast tagged along to the event and we bring you our recording of it in this episode.

Amanda Palmer is a one-in-a-generation artist. From her beginnings as a performance artist in Boston, to the cult band Dresden Dolls, to her work as a solo musician and performer, her music is searingly honest and brilliantly crafted.

She is one of the original industry disrupters, trusting her fans to support, house, feed, and even play with her, a DIY approach that was perfectly suited to the digital age, where she has flourished as a fan-funded artist.

Her new album with Edward Ka-Spel is called ‘I Can Spin A Rainbow’, and Una Mullally spoke to her about this and more from Paris recently.

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Dublin’s Culture Connects is a city-wide initiative of Dublin City Council, which aims to connect communities through culture. A number of women’s groups are among the community groups taking part, including the Labre Park Women’s Group from Ballyfermot, F2 Women’s Group from Fatima Mansions in Rialto and the Islamic Foundation of Ireland’s Amal Women’s Group.

Project director Iseult Byrne came into studio to tell Kathy Sheridan all about the initiative, along with participants Victoria Ni Bhriain and Nor Nasib.

Later in the podcast, Una Mullally shares her top ten list of things that she would like to see resurrected from the dead.

This episode is a special live recording of The Women's Podcast from our National Theatre, The Abbey, in Dublin City Centre to celebrate mothers, daughters and feminism, inspired by the wonderful Rough Magic musical The Train.

The Train is the story of the remarkable media coup orchestrated by the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement in 1971 that changed the social landscape of Ireland. Determined to challenge the laws of the Irish State, a group of 47 trailblazing women take a train to Belfast and return to Dublin with forbidden contraceptives, condoms and the pill - except of course it was aspirin masquerading as the pill.

This episode was recorded upstairs in the bar of The Abbey before Wednesday night's production. You can catch The Train this weekend in Dublin, or at The Mac in Belfast April 19-23.