The Irish Bridget

Author : Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815633549

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The Irish Bridget by Margaret Lynch-Brennan Pdf

“Bridget” was the Irish immigrant servant girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliché: the young girl who wreaked havoc in middle-class American homes. Now, in the first book-length treatment of the topic, Margaret Lynch-Brennan tells the real story of such Irish domestic servants, providing a richly detailed portrait of their lives and experiences. Drawing on personal correspondence and other primary sources, Lynch-Brennan gives voice to these young Irish women and celebrates their untold contribution to the ethnic history of the United States. In addition, recognizing the interest of scholars in contemporary domestic service, she devotes one chapter to comparing “Bridget’s” experience to that of other ethnic women over time in domestic service in America.

Author : Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815652670

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The Irish Bridget by Margaret Lynch-Brennan Pdf

“Bridget” was the Irish immigrant servant girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliché: the young girl who wreaked havoc in middle-class American homes. Now, in the first book-length treatment of the topic, Margaret Lynch-Brennan tells the real story of such Irish domestic servants, providing a richly detailed portrait of their lives and experiences. Drawing on personal correspondence and other primary sources, Lynch-Brennan gives voice to these young Irish women and celebrates their untold contribution to the ethnic history of the United States. In addition, recognizing the interest of scholars in contemporary domestic service, she devotes one chapter to comparing “Bridget’s” experience to that of other ethnic women over time in domestic service in America.

Author : Alison O'Reilly
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780717180431

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My Name is Bridget by Alison O'Reilly Pdf

In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century's worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. Her second child was once again delivered into the care of the nuns and was taken from her, never to be seen or heard from again. She would go on to marry a wonderful man and have a daughter, Anna Corrigan, but it was only after Bridget's death that Anna discovered she had two brothers her mother had never spoken about. In the aftermath of the explosive revelations that the remains of 796 babies had been found in a septic tank on the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, she became compelled to try and find out if her baby brothers' remains were among them. Here, Anna and Alison O'Reilly piece together the erased chapter of the life of Bridget Dolan and her forgotten sons, reminding us that we must never forget what was done to the women and children of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

Author : Bridget Connelly
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Connemara (Ireland)
ISBN : 0873514491

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Forgetting Ireland by Bridget Connelly Pdf

The immigrants were at last removed from the colony; their name became the town's shorthand for lying, drunken failures.".

Author : Angela Bourke
Publisher : Random House
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446412329

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The Burning Of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke Pdf

In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill, from where she would emerge, riding a white horse. But then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Her husband, father, aunt and four cousins were arrested and charged, while newspapers in nearby Clonmel, and then in Dublin, Cork, London and further afield attempted to make sense of what had happened. In this lurid and fascinating episode, set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, we witness the collision of town and country, of storytelling and science, of old and new. The torture and burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than a hundred years later. Winner of the Irish Times Prize for Non-Fiction

Author : Ian Plaid
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982-07-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0312094302

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Brace Yourself, Bridget! by Ian Plaid Pdf

Author : Kay Retzlaff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000479287

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Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870 by Kay Retzlaff Pdf

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers required distinctive ways of performing Irishness. Class, status, and gender were more significant than ethnicity. Close reading of diaries, newspapers, local histories, and public papers allows for nuanced understanding of immigrant lives amid stereotype and the nineteenth century evolution of a Scotch-Irish identity.

Author : Emer McLysaght,Sarah Breen
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780717179800

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Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling! by Emer McLysaght,Sarah Breen Pdf

Aisling is twenty-eight and she's a complete ... Aisling. She lives at home in Ballygobbard (or Ballygobackwards, as some gas tickets call it) with her parents and commutes to her good job at PensionsPlus in Dublin. Aisling goes out every Saturday night with her best friend Majella, who is a bit of a hames (she's lost two phones already this year – Aisling has never lost a phone). They love hoofing into the Coors Light if they're 'Out', or the vodka and Diet Cokes if they re 'Out Out'. Ais spends two nights a week at her boyfriend John's. He's from down home and was kiss number seventeen at her twenty-first. But Aisling wants more. She wants the ring on her finger. She wants the hen with the willy straws. She wants out of her parents' house, although she'd miss Mammy turning on the electric blanket like clockwork and Daddy taking her car 'out for a spin' and bringing it back full of petrol. When a week in Tenerife with John doesn't end with the expected engagement, Aisling calls a halt to things and soon she has surprised herself and everyone else by agreeing to move into a three-bed in Portobello with stylish Sadhbh from HR and her friend, the mysterious Elaine. Newly single and relocated to the big city, life is about to change utterly for this wonderful, strong, surprising and funny girl, who just happens to be a complete Aisling.

Author : Bridget Benson
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738728179

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When Tomorrow Speaks to Me by Bridget Benson Pdf

Tragic deaths, secret love affairs, and powerful messages from the spirit world have long colored psychic Bridget Benson's remarkable life. She grew up in the small Irish farming village of Straide, County Mayo, a place of lush meadows and peat bogs, purple heather-clad moorland, and sandy-beached lakes. Bridget lived with her eight siblings, parents, grandparents, and great aunt in a house with no electricity or running water. When her grandma died on Bridget's seventh birthday, Bridget received a message that her beloved father, who also had "the gift," would die when she was twelve years old, and that she would carry on as the family seer. When Tomorrow Speaks to Me tells the story of Bridget Benson's remarkably spiritual life, from her childhood experiences with spirit guides, ghosts, fairies, and leprechauns to the development of her career as a successful full-time psychic medium.

Author : Elaine Farrell,Leanne McCormick
Publisher : Random House
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844885824

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Bad Bridget by Elaine Farrell,Leanne McCormick Pdf

The Number 1 Bestseller 'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent 'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner * * * 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, 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 - bad trouble, and on an astonishing scale. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, creators of the celebrated 'Bad Bridget' podcast, have unearthed a world in which Irish women actually outnumbered Irish men in prison, in which you could get locked up for 'stubbornness', and in which a serial killer called Lizzie Halliday was described by the New York Times as 'the worst woman on earth'. They reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving. 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. Bad Bridget is a masterpiece of social history and true crime, showing us a fascinating and previously unexplored world. * * * 'I just loved it!' Ryan Tubridy 'Fascinating' Irish Times 'Rich in detail and thorough in research' New Statesman

Author : Keith R. Baker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530854342

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Bridget's Story by Keith R. Baker Pdf

This is a short story prequel to the Longshot series introducing the major characters and providing the backstory of how Rob and Bridget met and married.

Author : John Francis Maguire
Publisher : New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0017078272

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The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire Pdf

Author : Terrence M. Punch
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0806317892

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Erin's Sons by Terrence M. Punch Pdf

Volume II of "Erin's Sons" covers the same time period as its predecessor and the same geographic area--the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia--and it lists an additional 7,000 Irish arrivals in Atlantic Canada before 1853. What is remarkable about this second volume is the rich variety of information derived from hard-to-find sources such as church records of marriages and burials, cemetery records, headstone inscriptions, military description books, newspapers, poor house records, and passenger lists.

Author : Tara M. McCarthy
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815654360

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Respectability and Reform by Tara M. McCarthy Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunities to serve the needs of their communities. For many women, this began with a commitment to Irish nationalism. In Respectability and Reform, McCarthy explores the contributions of a small group of Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era who emerged as leaders, organizers, and activists. Profiles of these women suggest not only that Irish American women had a political tradition of their own but also that the diversity of the Irish American community fostered a range of priorities and approaches to activism. McCarthy focuses on three movements—the Irish nationalist movement, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement—to trace the development of women’s political roles. Highlighting familiar activists such as Fanny and Anna Parnell, as well as many lesser-known suffragists, McCarthy sheds light on the range of economic and social backgrounds found among the activists. She also shows that Irish American women’s commitment to social justice persisted from the Land War through the World War I era. In unearthing the rich and varied stories of these Irish American women, Respectablity and Reform deepens our understanding of their intersection with and contribution to the larger context of American women’s activism.

Author : Ruth Dudley Edwards,Bridget Hourican
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415278597

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An Atlas of Irish History by Ruth Dudley Edwards,Bridget Hourican Pdf

Fully revised and updated with over 100 beautiful maps, charts and graphs, and a narrative packed with facts this outstanding book examines the main changes that have occurred in Ireland and among the Irish abroad over the past two millennia.