Doireann Ní Ghríofa on A Ghost in the Throat and the mystery of writing and life

Featuring: Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Irish Book Award-winning A Ghost in the Throat that reads like a literary detective story; her muse Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill at the centre of the book and Doireann’s hunt for details about her life; oral history and being passed down in the bodies of women; the all-consuming journey of translating Eibhlín’s iconic poem; the obsession that countered the loneliness of motherhood; how an experience of dissection changed the trajectory of Doirean’s life; the surprising way she began writing; how the place we write makes itself felt in the texture of a book; the worlds between languages and their particular melodies; writing poetry in both English and Irish; and following hunches.

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