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Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

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Bad Bridget does an amazing job in taking many, sometimes clinical, sources of information and turning them into fascinating and thrilling stories of equally fascinating women. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people's lives were at stake. From sex workers and thieves to kidnappers and killers, these Bridgets are young women who have gone from the frying pan of their impoverished homeland to the fire of vast North American cities.

In 2021, the project was awarded an AHRC Follow-on Funding for a collaboration with National Museums NI to set up an exhibition at the Ulster American Folk Park which explores the Bad Bridget themes. The Irish in America have a reputation – you only have to look at the recent SNL sketch to see that reputation is alive and well - and after reading this book you can see why. Irish women emigrants in North America and the ten kinds of trouble they got intoIreland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a very good place to be a woman.I wanted to find out how extensive this was, who the women were, and the types of crimes they had committed. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Our 'Bad Bridget' exhibition tells the stories of thousands of women who left Ireland for North America between 1838 and 1918, many of which found themselves in trouble and struggling to survive.

I also loved that this book although historical and full of facts it doesn't read like an overly academic work and appeals to the public. Dr Elaine Farrell is a Reader in Irish Social History at Queen’s University Belfast, specialising in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland.orgBrent Barlow’s PhD thesis on the history of Mormonism is extremely useful - https://scholarsarchive. A lively, entertaining, if also at times incredibly sobering read, Bad Bridget provides a richly evocative account of the experiences of Irish female emigrants who found themselves on the wrong side of the law in nineteenth-century North America.

Elaine Farrell, Women, crime and punishment in Ireland: life in the nineteenth-century convict prison (Cambridge, 2020). We consider women’s roles in the sale of sex, including as sex workers and brothel-keepers, and their lived realities. I would definitely recommend this book if you want to learn more about the crimes of Irish Emigrant women throughout the US and Canada.The project also seeks to uncover the types of criminal activity in which Irish women were involved, from drunkenness to murder. He details the personal stories of larger-than-life figures, such as Mother Jones and Marcus Daly, who shaped the Irish story in the American West. A special blog for International Women's Day by Dr Elaine Farrell, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics.

Stories of the women and girls who left Ireland, often alone, often very young to make a new life in North America.Smith was charged with drunkenness in New York in 1876 but insisted that her drinking was medicinal.

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