Annual George Story Lecture – ‘Go to the Devil to the River Head to Your Own Bogs’: Unsettling Femininity in Early Irish-Newfoundland Fishing Communities
Dr. Willeen Keough
April 24, 2025
Threats, curses, common assaults, and communal actions involving Irish-Newfoundland women provide intriguing insights into gender, ethnicity, and class relations in Newfoundland fishing communities during early settlement. For a variety of motives — self-defense; defense of reputation, property, or family business; employment disputes; enforcement of community standards; and maintenance of ethnic boundaries—these women deployed power in… Read More