GOODY’S LAMENT

In the 1680’s, during an era of anti-witch hysteria, the Puritans of Boston condemned an innocent woman to hang on the Commons for practicing witchcraft. Unfairly accused and sentenced, Goody Glover’s plight was not helped by the fact that she was a proud Irish Catholic — a small group that was hated and despised in Boston at the time. A poor women ripped from her home in Ireland, sold into slavery and eventually settled as a servant in the New World, Goody Glover would find that the old miseries of hatred and intolerance had followed her across the Atlantic.

Originally created for a solo exhibit for GloveBox here in Boston, the story was noticed by The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies at the University College of Cork and artwork from “Goody’s Lament” was used in the college’s annual research journal.