Katherine May thoughtfully shows us how to come through these times with the wisdom of knowing that, like the seasons, our winters and summers are the ebb and flow of life.

Listen to how the discrimination and prejudice experienced by the Irish over 150 years ago has similar echoes in today’s society. Irish women emigrants in North America and the ten kinds of trouble they got intoIreland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a very good place to be a woman. Our exhibition shines a light on their living conditions in the tenement and the treatment they received from the authorities.They reveal the social forces that bred this mayhem and dysfunction, through stories that are brilliantly strange, sometimes funny, and often moving. 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. By the age of 30, another Irish migrant Delia Jones had been in the Boston courts at least 12 times for drunkenness and selling sex. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, in conversation with Kathy Clugston, talk about their bestselling book and tell the strange, funny, and often moving stories of these Bad Bridgets, young women who left their impoverished homeland and ended up as sex workers, thieves, kidnappers and killers.

Now an award winning podcast and book, Leanne and Elaine join me in this episode share the stories they have uncovered.I have posted images of New Geneva to my new WhatsApp and Telegram channels WhatsApp Irish History ChannelTelegram Irish History Channel Key sources Whatmore, R. The final episode of the year will be out next week when we will look at the story of the Irish In the American West. orgBrent Barlow’s PhD thesis on the history of Mormonism is extremely useful - https://scholarsarchive.

We are responsible for ensuring that Northern Ireland’s significant collection is developed, cared for, and accessible to the widest possible audience. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. A special blog for International Women's Day by Dr Elaine Farrell, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics.Bad Bridget represents the beginning of a new experience here for our visitors with our collaboration focusing on new sensory elements. The exhibition features almost 150 original objects from the collections of National Museums NI, alongside four bespoke scents, curated by AVM Curiosities.