The Wrens of the Curragh were an outcast community of 19th-century Irish women who lived rough, brutally hard lives on the plains of Kildare. The name comes from the shelters they lived in, hollowed out "nests" in the ground which they covered with layers of furze.

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When people talk about the Brehon Laws we often hear mention of how women's rights were very good in early Ireland.

While this is true in many respects, it would be slightly misguided to say that women were 'equal' to men in all respects.

But it is important to note...