Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire: 250 years of Ireland’s touchstone love poem
Lament for Art O’Leary, which Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill wrote for her murdered husband on May 4th, 1773, is still hugely powerful
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‘A remarkable woman artist looking at another woman artist looking at another woman artist’
An absorbing new documentary explores the literary detective work of award-winning author Doireann Ní Ghríofa
A Ghost in the Throat: Otherworldly, older-worldly hybrid of essay and autofiction
Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s unusual prose debut brings art of Caoineadh into the 21st century
Doireann Ní Ghríofa: The woman who fell in love with a poem
More than two centuries had fallen between the mouth of the speaker and the ear of the listener, but somehow, the poem still bound them together
Poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa on writing Clasp and what became of Airt Uí Laoghaire’s horse
My poems spring from the peculiar chemistry that occurs between the daydreams of my daily life and the fuel of my reading life
In praise of Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill, by Declan Kiberd
Irish Women Writers: ‘She invents a new tense, neither past nor present, which is a kind of “women’s time”, rejecting all ideas of authority, power and deference’
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