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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.
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"Fascinating... passionate and thought-provoking... a creative, stimulating book that deserves to win many readers" (Patrick French Sunday Times)
"One of those rare books that becomes an instantaneous classic" (Independent)
"Scrupulous, clear micro-history at its best" (Marina Warner, Books of the Year Times Literary Supplement)
"Angela Bourke's fascinating, disturbing and powerful book tells a compelling and tragic story" (Financial Times)
"The story of Bridget Cleary's death is a parable for a changing world, a well-researched and horrifying account of what could happen in the region where myth and modernity collide...As dramatic a murder mystery as any devotee of the genre could long for...And it is the rich abundance of ideas that makes this a uniquely important historical work" (Irish News)
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"One of those rare books that becomes an instantaneous classic" (Independent)
"Scrupulous, clear micro-history at its best" (Marina Warner, Books of the Year Times Literary Supplement)
"Angela Bourke's fascinating, disturbing and powerful book tells a compelling and tragic story" (Financial Times)
"The story of Bridget Cleary's death is a parable for a changing world, a well-researched and horrifying account of what could happen in the region where myth and modernity collide...As dramatic a murder mystery as any devotee of the genre could long for...And it is the rich abundance of ideas that makes this a uniquely important historical work" (Irish News)
Angela Bourke is the author of By Salt Water and Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker. Born in Dublin, where she still lives, she has spent long periods in the USA, and has held visiting academic positions at Harvard University, Boston College and the University of Minnesota. A leading scholar in interdisciplinary Irish Studies, Angela Bourke writes in Irish and English, and makes frequent appearances on television and radio. She is Senior Lecturer in Irish at University College Dublin, The National University of Ireland, Dublin.
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- Date d'édition2006
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