Bad Bridget
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Bad Bridget
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7 episodes
Bad Bridget - Episode 5 - The Murderers
We’ve saved our most sensational cases to the end! Hear about the woman who murdered her neighbour and put her in a trunk to steal her house, the wife...
Episode 3: The Unmarried Mothers.
Listen to the stories of girls and women who left Ireland pregnant or became pregnant in North America outside marriage. Some who migrated from Irelan...
Episode 4: The Demon Drink!
The Irish have a long association with alcohol and in this podcast we look at what happened to those Irish women who got into trouble with alcohol abr...
Bad Bridget: Still To Come...Unmarried mothers, the demon drink, and murder...
Enjoy a preview of the next 3 episodes in the Bad Bridget podcast, where we'll be hearing about the struggles and `shame' of unmarried mothers, the im...
Bad Bridget - Episode 1 - Poverty
Welcome to the Bad Bridget Podcast! Hear how many young Irish girls and women, some as young as 11 or 12, travelled alone to America to escape poverty...
Bad Bridget - Episode 2 - The Sex Workers.
Many Irish women travelled to North America, got jobs and sent money home. But perhaps their families did not know where that money came from! Hear a...
Bad Bridget Promotional Episode
Bad Bridget, the new podcast telling the untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American Dream become a nightmare
In...