Brigid's

After all, the top-rated Fox News (sic) Channel host took the title of his best selling A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity from Sister Mary Lurana, his third grade teacher at Saint Brigid's parochial school.

Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins

After all, the top-rated Fox News (sic) Channel host took the title of his best selling A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity from Sister Mary Lurana, his third grade teacher at Saint Brigid's parochial school.

Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins

After all, the top-rated Fox News (sic) Channel host took the title of his best selling A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity from Sister Mary Lurana, his third grade teacher at Saint Brigid's parochial school.

Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins

After all, the top-rated Fox News (sic) Channel host took the title of his best selling A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity from Sister Mary Lurana, his third grade teacher at Saint Brigid's parochial school.

Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins

After all, the top-rated Fox News (sic) Channel host took the title of his best selling A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity from Sister Mary Lurana, his third grade teacher at Saint Brigid's parochial school.

Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins

Brigid's labor is ultimately full of the medical interventions she hoped to avoid, but the description of her struggle in an enlightened age proves as suspenseful as the historical scenes depicting horrifying medical practices.

Book review: Valerie Sayers reviews 'The Birth of Love,' by Joanna Kavenna

The novel proceeds fuguewise, interweaving at increasingly short intervals the rest of the Semmelweiss story, the carefully documented agonies of Brigid's labour and Caesarean delivery, Michael's indecisions before he finally goes to see his mother, and the endless interrogation of Prisoner 730004.

The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna

Brigid's name echoes the fertility and maternity goddesses that Michael Stone thinks were "worshipped for thousands of years and then shoved aside."

Book review: Valerie Sayers reviews 'The Birth of Love,' by Joanna Kavenna

I could see Brigid's work fitting in at a science fiction or fantasy convention, and found it fascinating that she and her peers moved in an entirely different circuit of cons, ones dedicated specifically to faerie.

Winged Things & Improbable Machines

It would probably do you well to shine a bit of Brigid's light down that pit.

Bob or the Buzzards?