As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is very fitting that Professor Fionntán de Brún takes us through the extraordinary life of Maighréad Nic Mhaicín, an intelligent and brave woman whose full story is yet to be told. The talk will be interspersed with the gorgeous voice of Róise Nic Corraidh.

Before the First World War and still a teenager, Maighréad Nic Mhaicín began working in the mill on the Falls Road. She wrote a short story, “An Scilling” in which she described the mill worker’s hardships. Maighréad didn’t stay in the mills, she became proficient in numerous languages and worked in Moscow as a translator where she trans¬lated notable Russian works to Irish for publisher An Gúm. Maighread’s husband died in Russia in one of Stalin’s concentration camps.