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Hello. Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast That's not your history class, with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet, and

Reader of Books.

This is a very special episode if you were listening on Day of Release. This is for International Women's Day 24. And it's episode 99. If I could

have made this episode 100, I would have. But I was so determined

to do this and I've been humming and hoeing over doing it for like six months, like a good

solid six months. I have been like studying and putting it aside and then crying to myself

and trying to find the best moment to do this. And seeing as it's Women's History Month and

Irish Heritage Month, and when I asked followers and listeners

what they wanted to hear,

what they wanted to know about,

like Irish history, women's history,

you know, it was a pretty unanimous decision

of do both, like, Irish women,

the history of Irish women, Irish women's history.

And that's where we're at. Because... history of Irish women, Irish women's history.

And that's where we're at.

Because I think it would be a massive, massive disservice to discuss history of women in Ireland and not talk about this and not discuss it.

And I know my voice isn't fully back, it's not fully healed, you're going to have to

bear with me for this episode. I'm going to ask you for that.

And consider this your content warning, your trigger warning for this episode, because

I am going to be discussing

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