In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent young woman, disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first her family claimed she had been taken by fairies-but then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Bridget's husband, father, aunt, and four cousins were arrested and tried for murder, creating one of the first mass media sensations in Ireland and England as people tried to make sense of what had happened. Meanwhile, Tory newspapers in Ireland and Britain seized on the scandal to discredit the cause of Home Rule, playing on lingering fears of a savage Irish peasantry. Combining historical detective work, acute social analysis, and meticulous original scholarship, Angela Bourke investigates Bridget's murder.

The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Bourke, Angela

Community & Culture

Penguin Publishing Group

This vivid account of a woman murdered by her husband and nine of his friends returns to 1895 Ireland to discover why the citizens of rural Tipperary believed innocent Bridget Cleary was in fact a demon. 17,500 first printing.

The Burning of Bridget Cleary

History

Europe

VIKING

The sensational story of the disappearance of a young woman from her home in rural Tipperary in 1895 and the discovery of her body in a shallow grave, burned and tortured. In this lurid incident, we witness the collision of town and country, of superstition and skepticism.

The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (Pimlico (Series), 369.)

London : Pimlico

MAEVE BRENNAN

Arts & Literature

Pimlico

While many Irish-Americans identify the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century as the pivotal event in their ethnic history, most people in Ireland knew little about it as its 150th-anniversary approached. The Great Famine continued from 1845 at least until 1852, with lesser, locally devastating, famines occurring at intervals: most notable was the so-called "Little Famine" of the late 1870s, which led to the formation of the Land League, and then to the Land War of the 1880s. Famine commemorations began in 1995 and ended in 1997, however, suggesting that the effects of mass hunger, destitution, and widespread premature death could now safely be consigned to scholarship, sculpture and oblivion. Intense social change in Ireland since the 1990s has coincided with new work by scholars and artists to raise awareness of the unacknowledged trauma suffered by those who survived famine, and by their descendants. Famine has left many traces in a landscape now best known through tourism. Less well known or understood, however, are its many reverberations in the minds and imaginations of individuals, families and communities. Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845–1852 – the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music.

Voices Underfoot (Famine Folio)

Arts & Photography

Cork University Press

To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most covetedand influentialseats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in person and on the page. From 1954 to 1981 under the pseudonym The Long-Winded Lady,” Brennan wrote matchless urban sketches of life in Times Square and the Village for the Talk of the Town” column, and under her own name published fierce, intimate fictiontales of childhood, marriage, exile, longing, and the unforgiving side of the Irish temper. Yet even with her elegance and brilliance, Brennan’s rise to genius was as extreme as her collapse: at the time of her death in 1993, Maeve Brennan had not published a word since the 1970s and had slowly slipped into madness, ending up homeless on the same streets of Manhattan that had built her career. It is Angela Bourke’s achievement with Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker to bring much-deserved attention to Brennan’s complex legacy in all her triumph and tragedyfrom Dublin childhood to Manhattan glamour, and from extraordinary literary achievement to tragic destitution. With this definitive biography of this troubled genius, it is clear that Brennan, though always an outsider in her own life and times, is rightfully recognized as one of the best writers to ever grace the pages ofThe New Yorker.

Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker

Counterpoint

To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most covetedand influentialseats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in person and on the page. From 1954 to 1981 under the pseudonym The Long-Winded Lady,” Brennan wrote matchless urban sketches of life in Times Square and the Village for the Talk of the Town” column, and under her own name published fierce, intimate fictiontales of childhood, marriage, exile, longing, and the unforgiving side of the Irish temper. Yet even with her elegance and brilliance, Brennan’s rise to genius was as extreme as her collapse: at the time of her death in 1993, Maeve Brennan had not published a word since the 1970s and had slowly slipped into madness, ending up homeless on the same streets of Manhattan that had built her career. It is Angela Bourke’s achievement with Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker to bring much-deserved attention to Brennan’s complex legacy in all her triumph and tragedyfrom Dublin childhood to Manhattan glamour, and from extraordinary literary achievement to tragic destitution. With this definitive biography of this troubled genius, it is clear that Brennan, though always an outsider in her own life and times, is rightfully recognized as one of the best writers to ever grace the pages of The New Yorker.

Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker

Field Day Anthology: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions: Volumes IV and V

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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story

The Burning of Bridget Cleary

The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (Pimlico (Series), 369.)

MAEVE BRENNAN

Voices Underfoot (Famine Folio)

Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker

Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker

The Burning of Bridget Cleary

Field Day Anthology: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions: Volumes IV and V