DCU Book Club with Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa is DCU Book Club's featured book in September 2026.

Doireann joins us as special guest for an in conversation event at Belvedere Library, DCU St. Patrick's Campus.

Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

In November 1896, a young doctor named Lucia Strangman walks through the door of a lunatic asylum, where she will devote many years to recording her patients’ lives in a series of thick casebooks. More than a century later, a stranger finds these crumbling volumes and devotes her own years to discovering what they reveal of human suffering and healing, of care and harm, of trauma, dread, love, and joy.

About the Author

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an Irish ​writer devoted to exploring how the past makes itself felt within the present. Her novel A Ghost in the Throat won the James Tait Black Prize and was voted overall Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, while the US edition was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was translated into 20 further languages worldwide. Both history and ghost story, her next book, Said the Dead, distils hundreds of hours of archival research towards a polyphonic portrayal of a single institution.

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