Strong women hauling turf, Dooagh village on Achill Island, County Mayo, 1903... —women who labored from sunrise to sunset, who bore and raised big families, who endured the loss of little ones to illness and starvation, who saw their grown children leave for distant shores, who toiled in the fields, tended animals, lugged peat, and on and on it went... we owe our very existence to them, because without resilient Irish women such as these, none of us would be around now. | Irelands past in Motio