A Ghost In The Throat - A Live Reading – Presented by Cork Midsummer Festival & Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Drawing on the award-winning book A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa presents a live reading with accompanying visuals by filmmaker Tadhg O’Sullivan and a soundscape by composer Linda Buckley. The reading will be broadcast from The Everyman stage
‘When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.’
“One of many lessons I learned from writing ‘A Ghost in the Throat’ is that the act of re-reading can be an act of devotion. The book first grew from a compulsive re-reading of the poem ‘Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire,’ a jewel of Irish oral literature. The more I re-read the poem aloud, the more devoted I felt to the poem and to its author, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill. Once I set to writing my own book in response, I found that I was composing it in oral fashion too, reading each passage aloud many times as I wrote. Alongside the work of two deeply talented collaborators, this live reading returns the text to the voice that first created it.” – Doireann Ní Ghríofa

A Ghost in the Throat (Tramp Press, 2020)