I first heard about Bridget Cleary when I read At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things specutlates that Bridget had an affair with a man called Simpson. The authors of this book dismiss that and put forward another man, a fellow egg s...
Angela Bourke's book The Burning of Bridget Cleary (New York: Viking Penguin, 2000) is vastly superior.
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