Poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa on Her Searching New Book, ‘Said the Dead’

In “Said the Dead,” we meet and follow extraordinary women with extraordinary lives, in a time when Europe and Ireland are in the midst of World War I. As infectious disease outbreaks tear through a women’s asylum in Cork City, Lucia Strangman, one of Europe’s first female doctors, rises to these challenges and then some.