<p>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.</p>
<p>Guest co-presenter: Mairead Kiernan</p>
<p>Music: </p>
<p><a href="https://maijasofia.bandcamp.com/">Maija Sofia</a>: <a href="https://maijasofia.bandcamp.com/album/bath-time">The wife of Michael Cleary</a></p>
<p>Notes/ References/ Further Reading:</p>
<p>Amazon Lore: Black Stockings, 2017; </p>
<p>Dictionary of Irish Biography: Cleary, Bridget, Angela Bourke.; </p>
<p>Angela Bourke, The burning of Bridget Cleary: a true story (1999); </p>
<p>Reading a Woman's Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland · Angela Bourke · Feminist Studies 21 (3):553 (1995); </p>
<p>Library Ireland: <a href="https://www.libraryireland.com/articles/Burning-Bridget-Cleary/index.php">Bridget Cleary burned to death</a>, Michael J. McCarthy. Five Years in Ireland. 1901; </p>
<p>Magnus Course (2017) Changelings: alterity beyond difference, Folk Life, 55:1, 12-21; </p>
<p>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; </p>
<p>RTE Brainstorm:<a href="https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/1025/1085544-darkest-ireland-and-the-burning-of-bridget-cleary/"> "Darkest Ireland" and the burning of Bridget Cleary</a>, 22 October 2020; </p>
<p>RTE Doc on One: <a href="https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2010/1206/646575-radio-documentary-bridget-cleary-witch-burning-1895-tipperary/">The Burning of Bridget Cleary</a>, 1995; </p>
<p>RTE Hidden History:<a href="https://presspack.rte.ie/2005/11/01/hidden-history-fairy-wife-the-burning-of-bridget-cleary/"> Fairy Wife – The Burning of Bridget Cleary</a>, 2005.</p>
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