We’ve learned a lot of Irish history over our first few days here, but the fact that has most stuck out to me is that since the early ages, women have been able to do everything that men can. Women in some of the first settlements in Ireland could learn to fight and be warriors, hunt, and marry the same way that men did. If a woman was unhappy in a marriage, she had the same options for divorce.

This is quite unusual compared to the history of other countries. More often than not, women were considered lesser than men and many times their property. I find it quite interesting that Ireland was an exception to this, and encouraged equality from the beginning.

Source: The actors at Navan Fort