Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

HerStory is celebrating the modern women who embody the qualities of Ireland's Celtic goddess and saint. Here are our choices ...

IrishCentral Contributor Patricia Killeen on the heroic act of two Irish women in Paris that would have done St. Brigid proud ...

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

But it does suggest that women had some control of land and property, as well as strong social support, making Britain's Celtic society "more egalitarian than the Roman world," said study co ...

But it does suggest that women had some control of land and property, as well as strong social support, making Britain’s Celtic society “more egalitarian than the Roman world,” said study co ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before ... Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated ...

That's "where women move," says Cassidy ... This is why Cassidy and her colleagues were surprised to find remains of a Celtic tribe that lived during the Iron Age in Britain from around 100 ...