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A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa review – incandescent treasures

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In this dazzling prose debut, the poet presents a reimagining of 18th-century life entwined with her own existence

Doireann Ní Ghríofa: ‘Incapable of delivering a dud sentence.’he 18th-century Irish poem Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire is a “keen” written by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, a woman mourning her husband and raging at his murder. Doireann Ní Ghríofa first encountered it as a schoolgirl with a gift for daydreaming.

 

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