A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its parallels with her own life, and sets out to track down the rest of the story. A devastating and timeless tale about one woman freeing her voice by reaching into the past and finding another's.
Publisher: Tramp Press
ISBN: 9781916434271
Number of pages: 224
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
This is an astonishing work of auto fiction. Inspired by a passionate and gorgeous 18th century Irish poem : 'The Keen for Art O Laoghaire' handed down in the female oral tradition by its author Eibhlin... More
This book took me down a really lovely memory lane when I was a mum to a toddler and baby. I’d forgotten how much of a mental anchor a list was. Such a simple, mundane thing but it still helped to give focus amidst... More
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (The Keen for Art O'Laoghaire) is a poem every Irish person has to study in school, and I first read it when I was sixteen. It's a lament over Art O'Laoghaire's dead... More
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