Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930 - Paperback

by Margaret Lynch-Brennan (Author), Maureen O'Rourke Murphy (Foreword by)

"Densely documented with personal accounts, drawing on interviews and letters to let the women tell their own stories. As the first full-length scholarly book on female Irish servants, it will be a valuable text for educators."-American Historical Review "Provides fresh glimpses into the working world and the social world that Irish domestic servants constructed and inhabited in the United States. . . . Lynch-Brennan's well-written work will be warmly welcomed by historians of Irish America and those interested in the experiences of immigrant women in the United States."-Journal of American History

Author Biography

Margaret Lynch-Brennan taught at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York, as well as at SUNY Oneonta's Cooperstown Graduate Program. She is retired from the New York State Education Department and currently works as an independent scholar.