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Elaine Farrell
Bad Bridget is a masterpiece of social history and true crime, showing us a fascinating and previously unexplored world. Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in trouble.
Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, talk about their bestselling book and tell the strange, funny, and often moving stories of these Bad Bridgets, young women who left their impoverished homeland and ended up as sex workers, thieves, kidnappers and killers.
Dr Elaine Farrell is a Reader in Irish Social History at Queen’s University Belfast, specialising in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland. Her research focuses on crime history, as well as women’s and gender history. Dr Farrell joined the History Department, Queen’s University in 2012.
Dr Leanne McCormick is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish Social History and the Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) at Ulster University. She is an accomplished researcher and has made significant contributions through her extensive publications.
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Leanne McCormick
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Getting to Bad Bridget
54.653204616251, -5.6682069
North Down Museum
Town Hall
Castle Park Avenue
Bangor
BT20 4BT
United Kingdom