Week 9- Reading a Woman’s Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland- Bourke

November 24, 2007 by davidpham

Murder is a crime. I don’t understand why people could make this terrible thing a fairy tale, a so-called the idiom of oral legend and described in detail how Michael Cleary killed his wife Bridget Cleary instead of condemning him for his criminal act (p433). Tragically, this murder account was “favored by both newspapers and courts of law” (p454). I may have to use the traditional world view lens in Ireland at that time to understand this story. I actually don’t want to understand this thing anyway.