What The Walls Remember

Brunswick Bound x Verb Wellington: What the Walls Remember.
In the city of Cork lies the former Victorian mental asylum known as Our Lady’s, now transformed into modern apartments. The building and its stories are a haunting presence in both Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead and Noelle McCarthy’s Stakes.
Blending fiction, fact and archival discovery, Said the Dead uncovers the stories of the women who knew this asylum best, moving between past and present as Ní Ghríofa delves into the hospital’s casebooks. McCarthy’s darkly funny memoir, about Dracula, desire, and self-acceptance, returns…