A Poetry Collection to Resurrect Ireland’s Restless Girls

A Poetry Collection to Resurrect Ireland’s Restless Girls

A raven, poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin told me, is one of the few birds that will look at you as it sings. Ornithology has shown that birdsong patterns are passed down through generations, much like human language; they contain sounds that no longer have a source. Birdsong, in a sense, is an archive of the landscape, the culture, and simply the old songs. When a raven sings to us, then, what is she trying to tell us of the past? Ravens feature pr…