Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Ph.D., Public Scholar for New York Council for the Humanities: “The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930”
Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Ph.D., Public Scholar for New York Council for the Humanities: “The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930”
Who was the Irish Bridget? What relevance does her story have to the history of Irish immigration to America? Learn the answers to these questions in Dr. Margaret Lynch-Brennan’s presentation “The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930” which is based on her book of the same name. The young Irish