“This is a female text and it is a tiny miracle that it even exists, as it does in this moment, lifted to another consciousness by the ordinary wonder of type.” So begins A Ghost in the Throat, the astonishing prose debut by writer and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa. After deciding to translate Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire – an elegiac, longform poem by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, written after the killing of her husband in 1773 – Ní Ghríofa finds her life blurring with the poet’s,hellip;

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