Forgotten Women Haunt Cork's Abandoned Hospital Walls
Doireann Ní Ghríofa blends history and ghost story as forgotten women's voices rise from an abandoned Cork hospital. Readers who love lyrical Irish writing will find an eerie, intimate narrative about memory, erasure and the dead refusing silence.
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Forgotten Women Haunt Cork's Abandoned Hospital Walls
Doireann Ní Ghríofa blends history and ghost story as forgotten women's voices rise from an abandoned Cork hospital. Readers who love lyrical Irish writing will find an eerie, intimate narrative about memory, erasure and the dead refusing silence.
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From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page.
In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had her birth occurred in another decade, she too might have lived within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is the first of many signs. Following them, she finds herself drawn into an irresistible river of forgotten voices, those of the women who knew this place best: insistent, vivid and true. They murmur from archives and old records; they whisper from stairwells and walls. Among them – and in one figure in particular -- she may find meaning, solace, rage; her own salvation, perhaps, or her own vanishing?
A work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead breaks the boundaries between worlds -- past and present, imagined and real -- to make something lasting and new: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth.
Ideal for readers who:
- Respond to memoir, archive, ghost story and recovered history blurred together.
- Look for Cork’s derelict hospital to give forgotten women’s voices a physical charge.
- Respond to prose that feels haunted, tender and intellectually fierce.
- Seek boundary-crossing nonfiction where the past refuses to stay buried.
- About The Author
- Doireann Nì Ghrìofa is an Irish writer. Her most recent book, A Ghost in the Throat, won the James Tait Black Prize, the An Post Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. She is also the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry.
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- ISBN
- 9780571396177
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (21 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 mm
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