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EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, Thursday 1st February
Irish immigrant women were a common target of satire in Anglo-American print culture in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Jokes about ‘Bridget’ crossed the Atlantic in both directions, contributing to a transnational repository of comic Irish tropes.
This talk will discuss how representations of the most common of Irish working women – the domestic servant – reflected middle-class anxieties around changing class and gender roles.
Dr Catherine Healy is Historian-in-Residence at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
- Date:
- Thursday 1st February
- Time:
- 5.30pm
- Price:
- €5
- Address:
- EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, Custom House Quay, North Dock, Dublin 1, Ireland
