Bridget Cleary: Fairy Intrusion in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Lisa L. Spangenberg | October 13, 2007
Are you a witch?Are you a fairy?Are you the wife Of Michael Cleary?—Children’s rhyme from Southern Tipperary, Ireland I promised in my first post on fairies as other to look at a fairy intrusion in nineteenth century Ireland, specifically, the fairy burning of Bridget Cleary. In March of 1895 Bridget Boland Cleary was a trained [...]


