"It started as a trawl of dusty archives for an academic project about female Irish emigrants in Canada and the US by two history professors, a worthy but perhaps niche topic for research. The subjects, after all, were human flotsam from Ireland's diaspora whose existence was often barely recorded, let alone remembered. They were impoverished girls and women who wound up on the wrong side of the law and lived and died in penury,"
"But the two academics who mined police, court and prison archives for this hidden world of female crime coined a term, Bad Bridgets, that evolved into a hit podcast, a book and now a Hollywood film. Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in the film. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters Margot Robbie's production company announced this week that it is turning the stories into a feature that will star Daisy Edgar-Jones and be directed by Rich Peppiatt, who made the film Kneecap."
"This is a new world for us, said Elaine Farrell, who lectures at Queen's University Belfast. The number of messages and emails we've had from people just saying this is amazing and brilliant news it's been lovely. Her collaborator Leanne McCormick, of Ulster University, welcomed the transition to screen. It's hard handing over your baby, something we've worked on for a very long time,"
Two history professors researched police, court and prison archives to recover lives of impoverished 19th-century Irish emigrant women who became criminals in North America. They coined the term 'Bad Bridgets' for sex workers, thieves, drunkards and killers who survived famine, poverty and abuse and became footnotes in mass migrations to New York, Boston and Toronto. The research expanded into a podcast and a book and has been optioned for a Hollywood feature produced by Margot Robbie's company, to be directed by Rich Peppiatt and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Emilia Jones as sisters in New York.
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