Oct 26 2020 59 mins 4
We're starting Season Two with a bang as we tell the story of Bridget Cleary who was burned as a fairy changeling in 1895. Turns out we weren't too fond of fairies back in the day. Listen in to hear what led to Bridget's unfortunate demise.
Guest co-presenter: Mairead Kiernan
Music:
Maija Sofia: The wife of Michael Cleary
Notes/ References/ Further Reading:
Amazon Lore: Black Stockings, 2017;
Dictionary of Irish Biography: Cleary, Bridget, Angela Bourke.;
Angela Bourke, The burning of Bridget Cleary: a true story (1999);
Reading a Woman's Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland · Angela Bourke · Feminist Studies 21 (3):553 (1995);
Library Ireland: Bridget Cleary burned to death, Michael J. McCarthy. Five Years in Ireland. 1901;
Magnus Course (2017) Changelings: alterity beyond difference, Folk Life, 55:1, 12-21;
McGrath, Thomas. “Fairy Faith and Changelings: The Burning of Bridget Cleary in 1895.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 71, no. 282, 1982, pp. 178–184;
RTE Brainstorm: "Darkest Ireland" and the burning of Bridget Cleary, 22 October 2020;
RTE Doc on One: The Burning of Bridget Cleary, 1995;
RTE Hidden History: Fairy Wife – The Burning of Bridget Cleary, 2005.
