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Barcode30053003858076
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No828 NIGH
Title A ghost in the throat / Doireann Nâi Ghrâiofa.
Author Nâi Ghrâiofa, Doireann, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003858076828 NIGH3/7/2025 Available

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Personal Name Nâi Ghrâiofa, Doireann, author.
Title Statement A ghost in the throat / Doireann Nâi Ghrâiofa.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2021]
Physical Description 326 pages ; 20 cm
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographic references (pages 325-326).
Summary, Etc. "On discovering her murdered husband's body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlâin Dubh Nâi Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy. When she realizes that the literature dedicated to the poem reduces Eibhlâin Dubh's life to flimsy sketches, she wants more: the details of the poet's girlhood and old age; her unique rages, joys, sorrows, and desires; the shape of her days and site of her final place of rest. What follows is an adventure in which Doireann Niâ Ghriâofa sets out to discover Eibhlâin Dubh's erased life-and in doing so, discovers her own. Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Nâi Ghrâiofa, Doireann.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Self-realization in women.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Irish poetry.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women authors, Irish.
Other Edition Entry Nâi Ghrâiofa, Doireann. Dublin : Tramp Press, 2020 Ghost in the throat 9781916434264

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