Description
A Ghost in the Throat is an unusual, engrossing memoir and prose debut in which the author breathes life into a haunting figure from 18th-century Ireland. As she raises her children and pursues her own questions about language and memory, she becomes consumed by an old poem—“The Keen for Art Ó Laoghaire”—and the life of its elusive author. Blending intimate family reflection with literary research, the book explores how grief, history, and storytelling echo through time, shaping identity and voice. With Ní Ghríofa’s lyrical, searching style, this is both a personal reckoning and a vivid act of resurrection—turning scholarship into something tender, strange, and deeply human.
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paperback
Biblioasis
Published Jun 1, 2021
224 pages
ISBN: 9781771964111
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Details
First Published
2020
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.