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Women's gardening schools

Qualitymark · 2013-07-31 22:00:56

Just reading a paper by Mary Forrest and Valerie Ingram (unfortunately unavailable online unless you have access to Jstor) about women's gardening in Ireland. There were, it reveals, *four* gardening schools for women in Dublin between 1880 and 1923. What a difference it could have made to the new state if farmers' wives…

31-07-2013 10:00pm

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Just reading a paper by Mary Forrest and Valerie Ingram (unfortunately unavailable online unless you have access to Jstor) about women's gardening in Ireland.

There were, it reveals, *four* gardening schools for women in Dublin between 1880 and 1923.

What a difference it could have made to the new state if farmers' wives were then trained in market gardening!

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