The book looked at the world of Bad Bridgets, a swath of Irish women emigrants that were deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.
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Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2026
My great-grandfather said that the next day, the whole town celebrated because the troublemakers were gone.
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