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Author Bourke, Angela.

Title The burning of Bridget Cleary : a true story / Angela Bourke
Edition First American edition
Published New York : Viking, 2000

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Description xv, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Summary "In March 1895, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary fell ill, then disappeared from her cottage in rural Tipperary. Even before she vanished, rumors circulated that she was a changeling, left behind by fairies or evil spirits. The "real" Bridget would return on a white horse. Then her badly burned body was discovered in a shallow grave, and her husband, father, aunt, and four cousins were arrested and charged with her murder." "This is an exquisite if disturbing book that takes no sides when it comes to judging whether a belief in the supernatural is foolish and dangerous superstition or a reality of life at the end of the nineteenth century, and which illustrates how the politicization of a crime is hardly a new product of the twentieth."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Originally published: London : Pimlico, 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cleary, Bridget, approximately 1869-1895.
Murder -- Ireland -- Tipperary (County) -- Case studies.
SUBJECT Tipperary (Ireland : County) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83053203 -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008858
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 00026891
ISBN 067089270X alkaline paper