Author interview: Ní Ghríofa brings women of Our Lady’s out of the shadows

Marjorie Brennan spoke with the extraordinary Doireann Ní Ghríofa who has channelled a chorus of ghostly voices to tell the story of female patients of the former Cork psychiatric hospital

Doireann Ní Ghríofa at Waterstones, Cork, launching ‘Said the Dead’. When parked at Our Lady’s: ‘I could feel the sense of a shadow moving across and making its way into the car, through my body, through my fingertips into the book that I was trying to write.’ Picture: David Creedon

• Said The Dead
• Doireann Ní Ghríofa
• Faber & Faber, €16.99