We are very excited to announce that the Bad Bridget project will be coming to this year's West Cork History Festival!

Professors Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, authors of the bestselling Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women, will join us at Inish Beg in August. The book, along with a podcast series and exhibition which recently finished at the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, focuses on Irish women in North America who found themselves on the wrong side of the law in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These women definitely crossed many boundaries (our 2026 theme).