Poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa will talk about her prose debut, A Ghost in the Throat, at Boston College on September 24 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. A Ghost in the Throat is a genre-defying work that melds the epic lament by 18th-century Irish poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill with the author’s own meditations on motherhood and life. A Ghost in the Throat was an An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year, a Guardian Best Book of 2020, a winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021, an NPR Best Book of 2021, and a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, among other honors. Her lecture is presented by the Lowell Humanities Series and cosponsored by Boston College Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.