The Women's Podcast

Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies) is a collection of writing from extraordinary women - from Hollywood actresses, to teenage activists - each telling the story of their personal relationship with feminism. The collection is edited by journalist and activist Scarlett Curtis and features contributions from Irish actors Evanna Lynch and Saoirse Ronan. On today's show, Scarlett talks to Róisín Ingle about the book, about the controversial dismantling of a display promoting it in Topshop London and some of her favourite contributions - including one by Kiera Knightly describing childbirth in all its gorey details. She also talks about her superstar parents - Richard Curtis and Emma Freud - and her friendship with Saoirse Ronan.Also on the podcast, Evanna Lynch is on the line from Los Angeles to talk about her essay in Feminists Don't Wear Pink, before running out the door to rehearsals for Dancing With The Stars! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 caught and sent to prison, but nine years later Ailbhe decided to meet the man who had left her seriously injured and psychologically scarred. That event is now the subject of a film in which Ailbhe plays herself. She talks to Róisín Ingle about The Meeting (directed by Alan Gilsenan), the sexual assault she was subjected to and why she felt coming face to face with her attacker was what she needed to help her to heal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Echoes festival in her honour this weekend - in her hometown of Dalkey, Co Dublin - Róisín Ingle and Henrietta McKervey discuss the writer's 'quiet feminism'.Later, we bring you an interview Róisín did with the makeup artist Katie Jane Hughes at the Brown Thomas Style Summit last week. And if that sounds like your bag, stay tuned for details on how to be in with a chance of some tickets to upcoming events in the month-long series.Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Book Clubbers Irish Times journalists Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey and septuagenarian book lover Ann Ingle discuss The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien. The book was published in 1960 and described as a “smear on Irish womanhood” because of the way it laid bare the lives of young women in 1950s Ireland. It was famously banned and burned by the parish priest in O’Brien’s home county of Clare. In this episode, hear what our Book Club thought about this iconic Irish novel.Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 2pm Saturday 29th of September in Dublin. Why are we still marching? Monaghan explains that as well as a celebration the march signifies the work still to be done in ensuring the legislation ensures as wide as possible access for girls, women and people who need abortion services. Also in this episode, Roisin meets Charlotte Tilbury the woman behind the internationally successful make-up brand. She talks about why cosmetics give women confidence and explains the “lipstick index”. Tilbury was speaking at the Brown Thomas Style Summit and listeners to the podcast can win tickets to similar events by emailing thewomenspodcast@irishtimes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"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’s the big one, the bad one, the one you never thought you’d try."Grace Dyas is back with her THEATREclub campaigning show HEROIN, updated to reflect the current state of Ireland's drug problem, with additional writing by Rachael Keogh. They talk to Róisín about the campaign and why nothing short of radical shift in how we view drugs and drug users is needed.Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's show, Róisín hears about Anna Parnell, pioneering Irish feminist, founder of the Ladies Land League and younger sister of Irish Nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell. Anna has long since been written out of Irish history, but Lucy Keaveney has been working hard to reverse that. She talks to Róisín about Anna and about her commemoration at Ilfracombe in England this weekend. Lucy is joined by journalist Martina Devlin who has written about Anna in her new book Truth and Dare, a collection of short stories about some of Ireland's trailblazing women.Later in the show, historian professor Christine Kinealy speaks about the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who toured Ireland in 1845, and the women who helped him while he was here.Also today: Hannah Gadsby at the Emmy's and Christine Blasey Ford.Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's show, Róisín Ingle talks to Alice Malseed and Sarah Gordon about their hilarious Fringe Festival production, BILLY, which takes a disbelieving look at the reassuring rituals of our pastel-coloured, neatly organised, turbo capitalism-fuelled world. Later, Bernice Harrison talks to actor and playwright Gina Moxley about her latest work, The Patient Gloria, which has been called “a timely meditation on female desire in a new political context where misogyny is the winning ticket” and is inspired by the 1965 films, Three Approaches To Psychotherapy, also known as The Gloria Films. Plus: We discuss the Scally report on the Cervical Check scandal & Serena William's nightmare at the US Open Final last weekend.Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 suffrage in Ireland. The two-day conference is being arranged by the Oireachtas women’s caucus, which was founded in Leinster House last year. We talk to Catherine Martin, Chair of Oireachtas Women's Parliamentary Caucus and Fiona O’Louglin FF TD about what will be discussed at this historic meeting of female leaders.Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 after disclosing the abuse to a school friend she was taken out of her home and placed into care. Despite telling the police about the abuse and Rossi admitting his crimes in the 1980s, it took 34 years for the case to be heard. This week John Rossi was convicted of five years in prison but is likely to serve only half of that. Connolly waived her anonymity exclusively to the Irish Times in order to name her abuser and to express her belief that the judicial system is “rigged against children and enables paedophiles in their crimes”. She tells Roisin Ingle why she is hoping she can play a part in changing the system so that more predators are brought to justice and children in vulnerable situations are protected. Also on this week’s episode, we hear from the makers of Kiss Kiss, Slap Slap, a play about rape culture in Dublin Fringe Festival.Music: I Knew A Guy, by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Creative Commons Attribution: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.