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.

Franziska would then send this newly layered sound track (with two musical lines now) back to Catriona who would, again, either layer something on top or continue a different musical idea. 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 former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. this is a valuable work of social history that offers a vibrant reconstruction of a familiar terrain – Irish immigration to North America – from a fresh and enlightening perspective, that of Irish female criminals. So often history books don't gain the recognition they deserve but I am glad to see a lot of fellow bookstagramers recommending this book and also it being including in some of the book festivals.

From alcoholism, sex work, vagrancy, theft, kidnapping, infanticide, and murder, the picture of Irish women is not a good one. 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. From medieval battlefields to revolutions we've shared ringside seats to some of the greatest moments in history. We wanted to show how hard it was for many women, how they often found themselves on the wrong side of the law and the lives they may have led. Unlike female migrants from other countries, hundreds of thousands of Irish girls and women travelled alone.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. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. This podcast is a nostalgic trip through the early days of the internet in Ireland when podcasting emerged. Criminal Irish girls and women in North America might not fit accepted views of trailblazing women but to ignore their experiences would be to overlook an important aspect of Irish gender history and the history of migration from this island.

The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and Out To Lunch are annual festivals of music, comedy, theatre, art and literature which take place in January and May in Belfast, Northern Ireland.In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. We’ve been working with the brilliant National Museums NI on this exhibition since then so it’s very exciting to see it come to fruition now!