Poems from Into the Night that Flies So Fast

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2023-12242

Keywords:

Bridget Cleary, Changeling, fairy, murder, witchcraft

Abstract

These poems form part of a sequence on the life of Bridget Cleary (1867-1895). Cleary was killed by her husband, who claimed at trial to be acting under the belief that his wife had been abducted by fairies and replaced with a changeling. A conversation with Joe Lines establishes the poems’ context and development.

Author Biography

Milena Williamson

Milena Williamson is the 2023 Ciaran Carson Writing and the City post-doctoral fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. She has a PhD and an MA in poetry from the Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB. Her thesis is entitled “The Garden Cannot Be Unplanted and Ciaran Carson’s War Correspondences: Intertextual Fusion in Breaking News”. In 2022, Milena’s debut poetry pamphlet, Charm for Catching a Train, was published by Green Bottle Press. Her poems have been published widely in Ireland and in the UK, most notably in Propel, Magma Poetry, Oxford Poetry, The Rialto, bath magg, Ambit, Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee and more. Her poetry on Bridget Cleary has been supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Project Award.

References

Bourke, Angela (2006). The Burning of Bridget Cleary. London. Pimlico.

Farge, Arlette (2013). The Allure of the Archives, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton. New Haven. Yale University Press.

Rose, Jacqueline (2021). On Violence and On Violence Against Women. London. Faber & Faber.

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Published

2023-12-18

How to Cite

Williamson, M. (2023). Poems from Into the Night that Flies So Fast. Estudios Irlandeses, 18(2), 119–127. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2023-12242

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2023): Issue 18.2. Enlightenment Legacies - 2023

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Writers' Corner

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