Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film

<p>Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison</p><p>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.</p><p>The subjects, after all, were human flotsam from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland">Ireland’s</a> diaspora whose existence was often barely recorded, let alone remembered.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/09/bad-bridgets-podcast-about-irish-womens-lives-of-us-inspires-film">Continue reading...</a>