A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an Irish poet and prose writer born in 1981, who writes in both Irish and English. She is the author of several poetry collections including Résheoid (2011), Dúlasair (2012), and Clasp (2015), and is known for her performances, translations, and collaborations. A Ghost in the Throat (2020, Tramp Press) is her debut prose work, a formally hybrid book that weaves together the life of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill — an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman who composed the great grief-poem Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire for her murdered husband — with Ní Ghríofa's own contemporary life as a mother of young children. Read more →