The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

Author : Angela Bourke
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446412326
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Of Bridget Cleary written by Angela Bourke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Angela Bourke
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1844139344
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning of Bridget Cleary written by Angela Bourke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Angela Bourke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning of Bridget Cleary written by Angela Bourke and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1895, 26-year-old Bridget Cleary fell ill, then disappeared from her cottage in rural Tipperary.

Author : Joan Hoff
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465012086
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials Of Bridget Cleary written by Joan Hoff and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-01-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 15, 1895, twenty-eight year old Bridget Cleary, a cooper's wife, disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary. Immediately, strange and lurid rumors began circulating the neighborhood about what had happened. Some said she ran off with an egg seller; others supposed it was an aristocratic foxhunter who had taken young Bridget away. Swirling amid rumors was the barely whispered, but widely held, belief that Bridget had gone with no mortal man; rather, she had gone off with the fairies. The mystery deepened when seven days later her body was discovered, bent, broken and badly burned in a shallow grave. Within a few days, the unimaginable truth came to light: for almost a week before her death Bridget had been confined, ritually starved, threatened, physically and verbally abused, exorcised, and, finally, burned to death by her husband, Michael Cleary, her father, and extended family who confused bronchitis with a "fairy dart." They had all become convinced that "their Bridgie" had been taken from them and her fairy-possessed body left behind to deceive them. In The Cooper's Wife Is Missing, Joan Hoff and Marian Yeates make sense of this ancient, rarely publicized, ritual exorcism and explain how the incident went on to become a national and international incident. Set against a backdrop of renewed Irish nationalism, a Church crackdown on lingering pagan practices and the ongoing British humiliation of Catholic Ireland, the authors deftly map the dislocating anxieties that beset the rural peasantry in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Bewildered and frightened by the changes occurring all around them, pulled in all directions by their politicians, priests, landlords and English overlords, the Clearys were not alone in retreating to the relative comfort of pagan ritual. Drawing on first-hand accounts, contemporary newspaper reports, police records, trial testimony and a rich wealth of folklore, the authors weave a mesmerizing tale that touches upon magic, madness and mystery as it details, day by day, Bridget's ordeal and the resulting investigation. This is narrative history at its evocative best. It fascinates as it illuminates.

Author : Andrew Tierney
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241979102
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctor's Wife Is Dead written by Andrew Tierney and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime story In 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosperous local doctor. So why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic of the house she shared with her husband, and then exiled to a rented dwelling-room in an impoverished part of the famine-ravaged town? And why was her husband charged with murder? Following every twist and turn of the inquest into Ellen Langley's death and the trial of her husband, The Doctor's Wife is Dead tells the story of an unhappy marriage, of a man's confidence that he could get away with abusing his wife, and of the brave efforts of a number of ordinary citizens to hold him to account. Andrew Tierney has produced a tour de force of narrative nonfiction that shines a light on the double standards of Victorian law and morality and illuminates the weave of money, sex, ambition and respectability that defined the possibilities and limitations of married life. It is a gripping portrait of a marriage, a society and a shocking legal drama. 'An astonishing book ... a vivid chronicle of the unspeakable cruelty perpetrated by a husband on his spouse at a time when, in law, a wife was a man's chattel' Damian Corless, Irish Independent 'Opens in gripping style and rarely falters ... fascinating and well researched' Mary Carr, Irish Mail on Sunday (5 stars) 'Truly illuminating ... Tierney's exploration of the case's influence on Irish and English lawmaking and literature is particularly intriguing, drawing comparisons with Kate Summerscale's similar work in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' Jessica Traynor, Sunday Times 'Riveting ... meticulously researched and deftly told' Irish Examiner 'A nonfiction work with the pulse of a courtroom drama ... Tierney's book is a moving account of Ellen Langley's squalid last days, but it's also a study of Famine-era Irish society. Men dominate, be they grimly professional gents in tall hats and grey waistcoats or feckless scoundrels using women as chattel' Peter Murphy, Irish Times 'A dark tale of spousal abuse, illicit sex and uncertain justice, set against a backdrop of poverty and privilege, marital inequality and the deep religious divide between Catholics and Protestants. Tierney is an archaeologist, and his skill in unearthing the past is on display as he digs deep into the historical record of a murder case so shocking and controversial that it was debated in parliament. ... Tierney writes with passion ... and deftly weaves a plot that's filled with surprising twists and turns' History Ireland

Author : Translated from the Irish By Dr Douglas Hyde
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613109288
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teig O'Kane and the Corpse written by Translated from the Irish By Dr Douglas Hyde and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daphne Berdahl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520214765
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the World Ended written by Daphne Berdahl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-04-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the re-unification of Germany, this text asks what happens when a political and economic system collapses overnight. It concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life - including social organization, gender and religion.

Author : Taboo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439192081
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallin' Up written by Taboo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founding member of the Black Eyed Peas shares the inspiring story of his rise from the streets of East L.A. to the heights of international fame.

Author : Angela Bourke
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning of Bridget Cleary written by Angela Bourke and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the March 1895 murder of 26-year-old Bridget Cleary in rural Ireland, the trial of her husband and family, the extensive media coverage, and the politicization of the crime

Author : Gerry Adams
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847178219
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before the Dawn written by Gerry Adams and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial autobiography of the man at the heart of Irish Republican politics. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams offers his own unique, intimate account of the early years of his career, from his childhood in working-class Belfast to the more turbulent years of social activism that followed. An engaging and revealing self-portrait. Born in West Belfast in 1948 into a family with close ties to both the trade union and republican movements, his childhood, despite its material poverty, he has described in glowing and humorous terms. For many years his voice was banned from radio and television by both the British and Irish governments, while commentators and politicians condemned him and all he stood for. But through those years Brandon published a succession of books which made an important contribution to an understanding of the true circumstances of life and politics in the north of Ireland. In his autobiography, Before the Dawn, Gerry Adams brings a unique perspective to the years of conflict, insurrection and bitter struggle which ensued when peaceful political agitation was met with hysterical reaction and the sectarian tinderbox of Britain's last colony erupted. From the pogroms of 1969 to the hunger strikes of 1981, from the streets of West Belfast to the cages of Long Kesh, his powerful memoir is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern Ireland.