Does the evidence suggest that Irishwomen deviated from societal norms to a greater extent than other ethnic groups and how far were the reactions of the authorities guided influenced by ethnic prejudices? 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. com/site/patrickhenrymcguire2 is an excellent resource on the Irish born Mormon Patrick McGuireIrish Mormons- Reconciling identity in Global Mormonism by Hazel O’Brien is analysis of contemporary Mormonism. The Irish in America have a reputation – you only have to look at the recent SNL sketch to see that reputation is alive and well - and after reading this book you can see why.

Join Elaine Farrell, Leanne McCormick and guests as they discuss ‘Bad Bridgets’ and the untold stories of generations of Irish female immigrants to the USA that history chose to forget. It’s so different from seeing it written on the page and being able to share it with such a wide audience is amazing. With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Over the last few years The Bad Bridget Project in Queens University Belfast by Dr Elaine Farrell and Dr Leanne McCormick has focused on criminal and deviant Irish women in North America.

We wanted to show how hard it was for many women, how they often found themselves on the wrong side of the law and the lives they may have led. From alcoholism, sex work, vagrancy, theft, kidnapping, infanticide, and murder, the picture of Irish women is not a good one.

The most interesting chapter to me was the one about immigrant Irish women getting arrested for drunkenness, because it showed how society's view of alcohol use (and alcoholism) has changed over time.

By giving a voice to these Irish women history has neglected, Farrell and McCormick disrupt the romanticised narrative of Irish immigration to North America that is prominent in popular culture today. This 'back and forth' composing became a lot of fun, where the two women were eagerly waiting for each other’s musical ideas to which they could then respond in their own time and in their own homes (Franziska indeed recorded in her small but nicely resonant bathroom in Belfast! 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. Generations have been drawn to the United States in the hope of finding a better life across the Atlantic. Regardless of whether their criminal exploits were admired or concealed in their own lifetimes, the stories of girls and women like these can offer us a glimpse of the realities of life following emigration.

They reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving. Farrell and McCormick delivers a fantastic narrative of the circumstances and events which led Irish women to immigrate to America and show how their lives in the promising New World was anything but. My guest is historian Alan Noonan the author of 'Mining Irish-American Lives Western Communities from 1849 to 1920'.Leanne McCormick is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at Ulster University and co-creator with Elaine Farrell of the Bad Bridget project. We will question to what extent and in what ways immigrants failed to live up to the image of the good Irish mother.

The scents aim to take the visitor on a journey, including: a malodorous representation of the New York Tenements, and a scent titled the Dangers of the Fairground, inspired by Coney Island. Victoria Millar, Senior Curator of History at National Museums NI, said: “We are thrilled to have opened our Bad Bridget exhibition to the public. Beginning back in the California Goldrush of the 1850s, tens of thousands of Irish immigrants ventured into the American West. Angry at the ending of her relationship, Irish immigrant Mary Johnson scoured the streets of New York for her former lover before trying to slit his throat.The title derives from the common use of Bridget as a forename in Ireland at the time, and as a word sometimes used (in the US in particular) to refer to Irish women generally. A decade before the true crime show Serial took the world by storm, creators were making some of the earliest shows. Original Music for the podcast was composed, performed and produced by Dr Franziska Schroeder and Music MA student Ms Catriona Gribben.