The sharing economy - Opening doors, opportunities

Any summer school administrator struggling to find a theme for the coming season might consider the proposition that egg money did as much as anything else to help Irish emigrants colonise, in the most benign way, so much of the world.

The #MeToo generation, already struggling to understand the Ireland of just 40 years ago, may need an explanation — egg money was hard-earned by many a farmer’s wife, or single sister, who sold the eggs her hens laid.