The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
by Bourke, Angela
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 067089270X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670892709
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.96700002964
- Title
- The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
- Author
- Bourke, Angela
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. 1st American edition. 1st printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067089270X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670892709
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Changeling|Home Rule debate re: Ireland|Mass Media
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
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