"The Burning of Bridget Cleary" by Bourke.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:10:15
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (754 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (754 words)
Submerge yourself in this interesting and thoroughly investigated true story from late 19th century Ireland. The facts of the case are relatively basic: in 1895, 26-year-old Bridget Cleary vanished from her house in countryside Tipperary. Local gossips asserted that she had been taken by fairies to their fortification of Kylenagranagh, from where she would finally emerge riding a white horse. (Parsons, 317-319) But when her poorly burned body was discovered from a shallow grave a week …
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…end of the book, at least for me. When Michael Cleary was freed from prison in 1910, he moved from Ireland... to Montreal. Bourke doesn't talk about what happens to the family members who were involved in this calamity, out of deference to their living representatives.
References:
Parsons, Coilin "The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (review)" Literature and Medicine - Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2002, pp. 317-319
Bourke Angela, The Burning of Bridget Cleary (Viking, 2000) 45-78
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