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Bridget Cleary

The writer E. F. Benson took a considerable interest in the case, publishing a scholarly commentary on it, "The Recent 'Witch-Burning at Clonmel'", in the influential periodical The Nineteenth Century in June 1895, before the trial itself began.

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She obtained a Singer sewing machine, state of the art at the time, and was variously described as a dressmaker and a milliner.

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