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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (93768)	1/18/2005 12:12:18 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I am hoping that the more traditional Irish view of women does not have anything to do with Grace O'Malley's colorful and spirited life history not being taught in Irish schools, but I don't really know. Not only was she a pirate, but she was sexually unconventional (for then or now, in Ireland). Women's rights are very slowly catching up. I suppose most people in America don't know it, but divorce has only been legal for a few years in Eire, and you have to have lived apart for four of the last five years, so it takes quite awhile with that factored in. Abortion is illegal--to get an abortion, you have to take the ferry boat to England. Well, I suppose you could fly, but it is more expensive. And there are very strict rules about not providing any information within Ireland to women that would encourage them to go on that lonely boat ride.