Book interview: Bridgets breaking bad in this look at disappointed emigrée women

"It is a side of the emigration story that might have been lost to us had it not been for Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick"
Book interview: Bridgets breaking bad in this look at disappointed emigrée women

Many Irish women did not find the American dream when they emigrated to the US and ended up living on poverty in New York City tenement houses in rooms crowded with men, women, and children.

Sun, 26 Feb, 2023 - 17:00
Clodagh Finn

  • Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
  • Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick
  • Penguin Sandycove, €15.99

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