I remember coming across this production about two years ago and how the content struck a deep chord with me. 

It was the sort of production that one could imagine lovers of Irish history complaining there isn't enough of, or any at all. And I'd agree, we certainly do...

The good rearing of the children was in the interest of the whole community.

It was the responsibility of the wider family unit to ensure their offspring grew up to be strong, educated, honorable and upstanding people, after all, the family name depended on it!

Childr...

Map of Ireland Divided into Great Lordships c.1500

Source: Edmund Curtis' History of Medieval Ireland.