THE BURNING OF BRIDGET CLEARY

Author: Bourke (Angela)
Year: 1999
Publisher: Pimlico
First Edition
Edition Details: 1st edn.
Book Condition: F.
ISBN: 9780712665902
Price: £5.00
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Softcover. In 1895 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 badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Her husband, father, aunt and 4 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 episode, set in the last decade of the 19th century, we witness the collision of town and country, or storytelling and science, or old and new. The torture and burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than 100yrs later. Illus., Notes and Index. 240pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.

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