Bad Bridget: Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick in Conversation

On an island of storytellers and in a city where books are treasured, International Literature Festival Dublin is Ireland’s leading literary event. Since 1998, we have brought the world’s finest writers together to enthral, engage and excite audiences.The festival’s mission is to celebrate live literature at the heart of Dublin City, a designated UNESCO City of Literature, creating transformative experiences for readers and writers alike. Showcasing globally renowned artists and thinkers alongside emerging local writers, the programme is driven by a commitment to inspire, stimulate and entertain audiences of all ages.International Literature Festival Dublin is a Dublin City Council initiative, kindly funded by The Arts Council.

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Join Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick in conversation with Róisín Ingle as they uncover the untold stories of Irish female emigrants.

The Gibson Hotel

Join Elaine Farrell &amp; Leanne McCormick in conversation with Róisín Ingle as they uncover the untold stories of generations of Irish female immigrants to the USA that history chose to forget.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 &#x27;Bad Bridget&#x27; podcast, have unearthed a world in which Irish women actually outnumbered Irish men in prison, in which you could get locked up for &#x27;stubbornness&#x27;, and in which a serial killer called Lizzie Halliday was described by the New York Times as &#x27;the worst woman on earth&#x27;. They reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving. From sex workers and thieves to kidnappers and killers, these Bridgets are young women who have gone from the frying pan of their impoverished homeland to the fire of vast North American cities.Róisín Ingle is an Irish Times columnist, feature writer and co producer of the Irish Times Women&#x27;s Podcast.Presented by International Literature Festival Dublin in partnership with Penguin Random House Ireland as part of <a href="https://dublin.ie/whats-on/brigit/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brigit 2023: Dublin City Celebrating Women</a>.

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