Ellen Coyne

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622 appearances 9 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Brendan O'Connor · “‘Yesteryear’ shines another light on the Trad Wife culture war” · 3 May 2026 podcast

And the man is the provider who goes out and earns a lot of money to sustain the farm by keeping his hands dirty.

Yes, in two very different ways.

So on the one side in America, obviously, this is part of a big culture war.

We know that the Trump administration is really big on pro-natalism, which is trying to raise the birth rate by encouraging women to have more children.

And obviously, some of that is tied up to conservative Republican ideas about gender roles and modern feminism.

On the other side of things, I think the appeal to the majority of women, certainly women in Ireland who would have no truck with the politics of the tradwife movement, is that in 2026, to be able to work within the home, to have loads and loads of kids kind of seems like a subversive idea because for so many of us, that is just out of reach.

But I think just to burst the bubble slightly, a lot of these women, including Hannah Nealman, are multimillionaires.

Her husband happens to be the heir

to the dynasty of an airline tycoon.

The farm is worth 2.75 million and they have a staff of 30 people, including a homeschooler and some housekeepers.

So all is not really as it seems online, but obviously this has become like a big, it's really captured the zeitgeist because it seems to capture something with women.

Yep, I mean, I'd be very candid, I think I've said this to my colleagues in the Irish Times, that if I had a choice, there is no way that I would be working outside of the home, certainly until my child or any other children I might have reach school age.

But obviously, you know, living in Ireland, I think a lot of women are forced to work outside of the home because a lot of families require two incomes.

And I think...

That's kind of why this kind of people are so fascinated by this because they like having a look into these worlds that are so far divorced from our own.

Yeah, and also I think sometimes there's kind of like a reductive idea that any woman who wants to work within the home is some sort of feminist traitor.

I know like in my day job working in Leinster House, you often hear people talking about how many women are forced out of the workforce after having children as if it's universally a bad thing.

But economists don't tend to do sentiment analysis on that data.

So we don't actually know how many women are choosing to work within the home after they have kids because of their choice.

But again, the fact is that it's a luxury that you're only afforded if your husband has a salary big enough to run an entire household on.

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