The sensational story of the disappearance of a young woman from her home in rural Tipperary in 1895 and the discovery of her body in a shallow grave, burned an

In March 1895, 26-year-old Bridget Cleary fell ill, then disappeared from her cottage in rural Tipperary.

On March 15, 1895, twenty-eight year old Bridget Cleary, a cooper's wife, disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary. Immediately, strange and lurid

Recounts the March 1895 murder of 26-year-old Bridget Cleary in rural Ireland, the trial of her husband and family, the extensive media coverage, and the politi

"In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of