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The Burning Of Bridget Cleary
- A True Story
Engelsk Paperback

The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

- A True Story
Engelsk Paperback

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In 1895 twenty-six-year-old 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 four 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 nineteenth century, we witness the collision of town and country, of storytelling and science, of old and new. The torture and burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than a hundred years later.

Winner of the Irish Times Prize for Non-Fiction



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781844139347
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1844139344
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Udg. Dato:
6 jul 2006
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
132mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
6 jul 2006
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