Women prisoners in 19th-century Ireland

Published: April 10, 2021, 11 a.m.

Elaine Farrell shares the stories of incarcerated Irish women, from daily routines inside a convict prison to relationships with staff and contact with the outside world. She also asks what their experiences can tell us about the lives of working-class women in 19th-century Ireland more generally.\xa0\n\xa0\n(Ad) Elaine Farrell is the author of\xa0Women, Crime and Punishment in\xa0Ireland: Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict\xa0Prison\xa0(Cambridge University Press, 2020). Buy it now from Amazon:\xa0https://www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Crime-Punishment-Ireland-Nineteenth-Century/dp/1108839509/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod\xa0\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices