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

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Hear about the woman who murdered her neighbour and put her in a trunk to steal her house, the wife who suspected her husband of having an affair, and the Irish serial killer who was the first women in America to be sentenced to death by the electric chair. Stories of the women and girls who left Ireland, often alone, often very young to make a new life in North America. Beginning back in the California Goldrush of the 1850s, tens of thousands of Irish immigrants ventured into the American West. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, in conversation with Kathy Clugston, 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.This podcast is a nostalgic trip through the early days of the internet in Ireland when podcasting emerged. In the second and final part of my series on the history of podcasting I look at how podcasting became so popular and where it’s heading. My guest is historian Alan Noonan the author of 'Mining Irish-American Lives Western Communities from 1849 to 1920'.

I was expecting more case histories and a bigger book, but maybe it just means there are more tales of Bridgets to come! 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.Whereas they would have usually sat together in one space, improvising, discussing and composing the music in a face to face fashion, the restrictions and lockdowns meant that this working process had to be altered. Bad Bridget is a masterpiece of social history and true crime, showing us a fascinating and previously unexplored world. Situated high in the Rocky mountains, Butte was just one of hundreds of Irish communities dotted across the American West.