Remembering Ireland's forgotten farming women

Men of Ireland, I challenge you to do one small thing to make sure the farm women of your ancestry are properly celebrated

At least one woman from whom you are descended worked the land. Picture: Getty Images

Men of Ireland, take a moment this week to celebrate not only the women in your life right now, but the women from whom you’re descended.

I can almost guarantee that at least one of them worked the land - and don’t even start to tell me they were "only a farmer’s wife" or whatnot.