An Irishwoman’s Diary Episode10: An intrepid war reporter - Gertude Gaffney

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · Jun 28, 2026 · 27m

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. Once described as “Ireland’s ablest female journalist”, the exploits of war correspondent Gertrude Gaffney have been largely lost to history.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.Clodagh Finn shares the story of this incredible journalist whose work brought the sights and sounds of…