Mocking ‘Bridget’: Irish immigrant stereotypes after the Famine

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 that most common of Irish working women – the domestic servant – reflected middle-class anxieties around changing class and gender roles.

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