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Bad Bridget

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Today: #97 in Education, Ireland on our combined chart.

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    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 held a grudge, who fell out with each other (sometimes with tragic consequences), or who…

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    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 parents in the past could lead to a prison sentence. Elizabeth Alice Clement talks to us about…

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  • Bad Bridget: S1E5 - The Murderers

    December 11, 2020 · 25 min

    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 who suspected her husband of having an affair, and the Irish serial killer who was the…

  • Bad Bridget: S1E4 - The Demon Drink!

    December 5, 2020 · 22 min

    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 abroad. Those who drank to drown their sorrows, the mothers who neglected their children…

  • Bad Bridget: S1E3 - The Unmarried Mothers

    December 3, 2020 · 23 min

    Listen to the stories of girls and women who left Ireland pregnant or became pregnant in North America outside marriage. Some who migrated from Ireland believed their partners would follow them, only to find themselves alone and thousands…

  • Bad Bridget: Season 1 Still To Come...Unmarried mothers, the demon drink, and murder...

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    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 impact of the demon drink on our Bad Bridgets and the most sensational crime of all…

  • Bad Bridget: S1E2 -The Sex Workers

    December 3, 2020 · 34 min

    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 about the Irish women who became sex workers, about wrongful convictions and how much…

  • Bad Bridget: S1E1 - Poverty

    December 2, 2020 · 26 min

    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 at home and to earn money for their families. Listen to how the discrimination and…

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