The Burning Of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke
In 1825 26 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 body was found in a shallow grave. her husband, father, aunt and 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 incident, set in the dawn of the twentieth century, we wirness the collision of town and country, of superstition and scepticism, of old and new. The torture and burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in its own time and continues to reverberate more than 100 years later.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780712665902 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712665900 |
| Title | The Burning Of Bridget Cleary |
| Author | Angela Bourke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-08-19 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Irish Times Literary Prize,Irish Non-fiction 2001 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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