Bad Bridget
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Bad Bridget
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Nýlegir þættir
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Bad Bridget: S2E6 - The Irish
In the last episode of the season we talk about the tricky subject of discrimination, both against and by the Irish. Sophie Cooper details how the Iri...
Bad Bridget: S2E5 - The Revengers (live from Electric Picnic)
Join us live from Electric Picnic, Ireland’s largest music and arts festival, for this live episode on all things revenge. Hear about the women who he...
Bad Bridget: S2E4 - The Bad Girls
How many of us would have been in trouble if stubbornness was a crime when we were teenagers? Hear about how being stubborn and disobeying your parent...
Bad Bridget: S2E3 - The Lovers
We all love a happy ending … but this rarely happened for many of our Bad Bridgets. Listen in for some tales of love gone wrong. We hear how emigratio...
Bad Bridget: S2E2 - The Theives
Have you ever shoplifted or had your pocket picked? Well let us tell you about some of the Bad Bridgets who were extraordinary thieves. These are some...
Bad Bridget: S2E1 - The Servants
Welcome back to Season 2 of the Bad Bridget podcast! To begin this season we’re talking about a very common occupation for many Irish women (and Bad B...
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 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...
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...
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 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 - 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 Promotional Episode
Bad Bridget, the new podcast telling the untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American Dream become a nightmare
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