Some spent their trials weeping, clearly incredibly remorseful or horrified at the situations in which they found themselves. It seeks to explore how and in what ways Irish women were sexually deviant in North America and how they were treated. I’m particularly interested in crime, gender, and lived realities in 19 th-century Ireland, and these are the topics that I’ve published on. That visitors come away with more understanding of how tough it can be to be a migrant, to leave your home, to be away from family and friends and support networks.

I wanted to find out how extensive this was, who the women were, and the types of crimes they had committed. I had no idea that Irish women made up such a high proportion of New York, Boston and Toronto’s incarcerated populations in the 19th and early 20th centuries, not to mention the breadth of crimes of which they were convicted. In most of the case studies I found myself despairing at how easily these women fell into harm's way. In 2021, the project was awarded an AHRC Follow-on Funding for a collaboration with National Museums NI to set up an exhibition at the Ulster American Folk Park which explores the Bad Bridget themes. Victoria Millar, Senior Curator of History at National Museums NI, said: “We are thrilled to have opened our Bad Bridget exhibition to the public.Biography: Elaine Farrell (Author) Elaine Farrell is a Reader in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast, and co-creator with Leanne McCormick of the Bad Bridget project. In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Unlike female migrants from other countries, hundreds of thousands of Irish girls and women travelled alone.

We all felt that Bad Bridget would be a great collaboration with the Ulster American Folk Park and began to plan an exhibition. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people's lives were at stake. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.We want to tell these stories in an accessible and exciting way and for visitors to come away with a wider understanding of life for many women at home in Ireland and their emigration experience. Leanne McCormick, Regulating sexuality: women in twentieth-century Northern Ireland (Manchester, 2009). Elaine Farrell (Author) Elaine Farrell is a Reader in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast, and co-creator with Leanne McCormick of the Bad Bridget project. While the Great Hunger of the 1840s resulted in one million deaths, this one murder encapsulated the stark choices facing that generation of Irish people in a one gripping story. Although we refer to 'Bad Bridget' as a collective, these girls and women often had little in common besides their island of origin.

We will consider the role of women in the sale of sex, as prostitutes, as brothel-keepers, and otherwise.Bad Bridget at the Ulster American Folk Park is a new multi-sensory exhibition that highlights the adversities many women faced when they migrated to North America from Ireland in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. Emigration as a way to avoid the potential stigma and shame associated with a pregnancy outside marriage points to harsh societal attitudes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland. You can get Alan's book 'Mining Irish-American Lives Western Communities from 1849 to 1920' here https://upcolorado.

Arriving in America came as a shock to many of the women—finding a job and a place to live wasn't easy. The two women intend to re-visit all the musical materials produced (some going back to September 2020),and there may be an entirely stand-alone “Bad Bridget Music” album emerging from the inspiration provided by the incredible stories narrated by Dr Elaine Farrell and Dr Leanne McCormick! A special blog for International Women's Day by Dr Elaine Farrell, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. Some who migrated from Ireland believed their partners would follow them, only to find themselves alone and thousands of miles from home. Traditionally, women’s stories have been underrepresented at the Ulster American Folk Park, even though women accounted for around half of Irish migrants from 1800 onwards.With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Please note that a lot of music was produced in that way, inspired by the stories of the Bad Bridget, but evidently not everything could go into the final podcast.