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The Burning of Bridget Cleary, A True Story
by Angela Bourke
- HISTORY
- 2001
- PAPER
- 279 PAGES
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The harrowing account of the turn-of-the-century murder of a young woman in rural Ireland and the subsequent trial of her husband. It's both a detailed social history and a riveting story that transports the reader to another time and place. The ditty "Are you a witch or are you a fairy or are you the wife of Micahel Cleary?" still reverberates in South Tipperary, where Cleary's greatest crime may have been that she was a vivacious, outspoken and beautiful woman.
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