Brigid Spotlight #4: Briggett Drewie was left a pregnant widow after the 1641 Rebellion. She was ‘left in that miserable predicament great with chyld’. From @tcdlibrary.bsky.social
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On 30 June 1642 Briggett Drewie recounted her experience of the 1641 rebellion. At the hands of the rebels, she was left a pregnant widow: ‘being left in that miserable state & predicament great with chyld’. Learn more about her story and others here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...