An Irishwoman’s Diary Episode 12: A ‘militant’ lesbian nun who made history - Bridget Coll

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.  


Bridget Coll’s story reads like fiction — a thriller even — just
as the many words used to describe her don’t seem to fit
together: nun, lesbian, teacher, militant, law-changer, even
“home-wrecker”.


This “tiny woman with a fierce heart” from Fanad Co Donegal
protested in Chile and made legal history in Canada. But at home
in Ireland, her story isn’t so well known.


Clodagh Finn: Bridget Coll — nun, lesbian, law-changer, and
militant


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