While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.
While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.
THE IRISH BROUGHT IT ALL TO AMERICA Irish contributions to the American life from Corned Beef and Cabbage to Submarines. Typically American: Moonshine and Square Dancing. Murphy's Law and Mickey Finn. McGuffey's Readers and Good ol' Pat and Mike jokes. These are just a few of the wonderful things that make America the warm-hearted, good humored, flag-waving country that it has been for two hundred and fifty years, and they all came from the grand green land of Ireland. It was and has been, since Patrick Maguire stepped off the decks of Columbus' Santa Maria ship in 1492 to drag his dinghy onto the shores of San Salvador, the Irish have had one foot in the muddy black soil and brilliant green grass of Ireland and one on the mountains and lakes and prairies of the Land of the Free. The Irish and Americans have been indubitably interconnected by heritage, convictions, and spirit since the beginning.
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