#so I am veryyyyy familiar with the history now

[historia-vitae-magistras]

I would absoloutely LOVE to read a story of yours based around brigid showing up in America on a coffin ship. As someone from Ireland, a lot of people don't actually know the history and it makes my heart so so big hearing it even mentioned :')

I don't know if I'll ever do the coffin ships specifically but I have a lot of thoughts about Brighid and the diaspora in America and Australia especially but also Canada, Argentina and Chile. One of the handful of times I've heard Irish Gaelic in public it was from an Argentinian, it was glorious. Sorry, braincells playing pingpong today uhhh where was I oh! Yes. So if you kind of scratch that surface of American consumerism and the whole phenomenon of plastic paddies and yanks ordering car bombs in pubs you might be surprised! There's a real appreciation for the history and culture and music under there, I swear. I'm not Irish-American but I was born in Boston and we're the worst about this, I swear to god, but there is a really rich vein of history and appreciation in there somewhere.

Anyway, all of that to say I will likely write a story about if not the coffin ships themselves, then at least some of Brighid's life and relationships that resulted from the circumstances. Coffin ships, fever sheds, the Irish Brigade, the Fenian raids, the music, the food, the holiday, the legacy of the Celtic Church in the Catholic church of America and Australia. There's a lot of material in there.