Niamh Campbell and Doireann Ní Ghríofa in conversation with Belinda McKeon

Join us for a morning around two haunting novels that explore the link between memory, remembering, motherhood and voices that linger across generations. Niamh Campbell’s Make Strange (W&N) is an emotionally charged family story where a child begins speaking of past lives and the time she died. In her distinctive, lyrical writing, Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead (Faber & Faber) blends history and ghost story as forgotten women’s voices rise from an abandoned Cork hospital. 

Niamh Campbell is the author of This Happy (2020) and We Were Young (2022). She has won the Rooney Prize for Irish literature, one of Ireland’s most distinguished prizes and the Sunday Times Audible Short Story prize.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an Irish writer. Her most recent book, A Ghost in the Throat, won the James Tait Black Prize and the An Post Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. She is also the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry.

Belinda McKeon is the author of the novels Solace (2011) and Tender (2015). She directs the MA in Creative Writing at Maynooth University.

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