The Irish Bridget

The Irish Bridget
Author: Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0815633548

“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.

Forgetting Ireland

Forgetting Ireland
Author: Bridget Connelly
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003
Genre: Connemara (Ireland)
ISBN: 9780873514491

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

My Name is Bridget

My Name is Bridget
Author: Alison O'Reilly
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0717180433

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.

The Irish Bridget

The Irish Bridget
Author: Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0815652674

"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.

The Irish in America

The Irish in America
Author: John Francis Maguire
Publisher: New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
Total Pages: 682
Release: 1868
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

The Burning Of Bridget Cleary
Author: Angela Bourke
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1446412326

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

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!
Author: Emer McLysaght
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 071717980X

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.

A Woman of Aran

A Woman of Aran
Author: Bridget Dirrane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A Good Confession

A Good Confession
Author: Bridget Whelan
Publisher: Severn House Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Irish
ISBN: 9781847510952

Cathleen Brogan is a young widow struggling to bring up her family in 1960s north London. Times are tough and hardships are comforted by the local Catholic priest, Father Jerry Brogan. Over time it becomes clear that Cathleen feels more for Father Jerry than perhaps she should.