What Doireann Ní Ghríofa is Reading Now, and Next

By Doireann Ní GhríofaSeptember 24, 2026

In her new book, Said the Dead, Doireann Ní Ghríofa is “the Reader,” a third-person protagonist. “In the asylum edgelands, she stumbled on a ghost story,” Ní Ghríofa writes. Following clues of happenstance and augury, she seeks the details of

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