TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farrell,Elaine
AU  - McCormick,Leanne
TI  - Bad Bridget: crime, mayhem and the lives of Irish emigrant women 
SN  - 9781844885817 (pbk.) :
AV  - HV6046 
U1  - 364.37 23
KW  - Female offenders
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Irish
KW  - Migrations
KW  - True Crime
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Podcast tie-in
N2  - 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, reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving
ER  -