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Female Texts | Peter J. Leithart

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United Kingdom , Maria Theresa , Abraham Morris , Eibhlin Dubh , Peter Levi , Doireann Ni Ghriofa , Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill , Arto Leary , Hungarian Hussars , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் , மரியா தெரேசா , பீட்டர் லெவி , ஆர்டோ லீரி , பசி ஹஸ்ஸர்கள் ,

A Book About Absorbing What We Love Until It Transforms Us

“A Ghost in the Throat,” by Doireann Ni Ghriofa, is part memoir, part literary investigation of a 250-year-old poem. ....

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One Irish Poet Looks Back Three Centuries to Find Obsession and Inspiration in Another


One Irish Poet Looks Back Three Centuries to Find Obsession and Inspiration in Another
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A woman once fell in love with a poem a keening, a roaring for a slain beloved. The 18th-century Irish noblewoman Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill composed “Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire” after her husband was murdered by a powerful British official. Arriving at the scene, Ni Chonaill, pregnant with their third child, drank handfuls of her husband’s blood. “My bright dove,” “my pleasure,” she called him in the poem, “my thousand bewilderments” why hadn’t she been with him? She imagined her blouse catching the bullet in its pleats. ....

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