Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film 🔗 Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prisonIt 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. Continue reading... #englishnews #guardian #worldnews #analysis