Jessie Buckley became a mother for the first time in 2025

For years, Irish women stayed silent about their own struggles because we were viewed as second-class citizens, but many women before us started to raise their voices, breaking down stigma when it came to everything from the right to vote, the right to work, and the realities of motherhood.

Hamnet actress Jessie Buckley keeps her personal life out of the spotlight, but in a recent interview with British Vogue, the new mum shared some beautiful advice she was given after welcoming her baby girl last year, and it is hugely comforting.

Speaking about her six-month-old daughter, Buckley said a friend gave her some remarkable advice when she became a mum for the first time in 2025. The Hamnet star and her husband, Freddie, welcomed a daughter six months ago.

"A friend said to me, ‘Don’t forget that you’re also a new thing when you become a mother.’ A lot of attention is given to this little baby, but your relationship to the world is new, your relationship with your partner is new, and your relationship to your work is new. I don’t know what the next story is that I need to tell because it’s seismic what’s happened.”

Buckley believes her role as Agnes in Hamnet deepened her desire to become a mom.

“Well, I wasn't a mother at the time that I filmed it. I deeply wanted to be a mother, but I have a mother, and I know women, and we're pretty epic," she shared after winning her Critics' Choice award last weekend.