A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

08/07/2021 7h 52min
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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Title: A Ghost in the Throat
Author: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Narrator: Siobhán McSweeney
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
Release date: 07-08-21
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 7 ratings
Genres: Essays
Publisher's Summary:
In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill s Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi, professor of poetry at Oxford University, as 'the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century'. 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.