The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Bourke, Angela

The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141002026)

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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Bourke, Angela

The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story

$16.00
The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Bourke, Angela

The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Angela Bourke
ISBN-10: 0141002026
ISBN-13: 9780141002026
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2001
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.80d
By Angela Bourke
By Angela Bourke
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Angela Bourke is senior lecturer in Irish at University College, Dublin. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota and writes, lectures, and broadcasts on Irish oral tradition and literature.

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