Doireann ni Ghriofa.
dOIREANN NI GHRIOFA: BIOGRAPHY OF A POET
A GHOST IN THE THROAT (2020)
Winner of the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
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Doireann Ni Ghriofa weaves her own life into the story of Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill, an 18th century Irish noblewoman. Eibhlin composed a famous mourning poem immediately after the murder of her husband Art in 1773. He was killed by the Irish MP Abraham Morris, and the poem she wrote after his death has become one of the key documents in the oral history of Ireland. Doireann Ni Ghriofa draws the connections with her own life, two centries later.
The Guardian described the book thus: ‘In this dazzling prose debut, the poet presents a reimagining of 18th-century life entwined with her own existence.’
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Doireann Ni Ghriofa is a bi-lingual author and essayist who writes in both English and Irish. She has published her poems widely, in Ireland and abroad, in literarary magazines including Poetry, the Irish Times, Prairie Schooner, and the Irish Examiner. Her awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. She describes her poems as explorations of ‘birth, death, desire, and domesticity’. Doireann Ni Ghriofa was educated at University College Cork, where she first studied dentistry transferring to Applied Psychiatry and Literature.
