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Nóra Keane

The Dead of Inisbride

Nóra Keane

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English
Black Bell Books
05 May 2026
Horror & ghost stories; Ghosts & poltergeists
A woman comes out of the sea with no name, no memory, and burns marked into both her palms.

In the autumn of 1939, as Europe begins its descent into war, the small Irish village of Ballykeen is shaken by the arrival of a stranger found half drowned on the rocks below Cuan Dubh. She carries no papers, no ring, no clear past, and no explanation for the terror that follows her from the water.

The villagers call her Mairéad na Mara, Mairéad of the Sea.

But across the harbour lies Inisbride, a ruined island of roofless cottages, a chapel without a voice, an old burial ground, and the dark house on the western rise known as Teach Dubh, the Black House. No one lives there now. No one speaks of what happened there with honesty. Yet when Mairéad wakes in the care of Bríd Sullivan, the island begins to answer.

There are cries in the walls.

There are names missing from parish records.

There are children who vanished from their mothers' arms.

There is a priest who knows more than he will say.

And there is a dead woman on Inisbride who has waited years for someone to remember her properly.

As Mairéad is drawn closer to the Black House, the village's buried past begins to surface in whispers, visions, written marks, and the cold insistence of the dead. What first appears to be a haunting becomes something far more terrible: a history of women erased, children hidden, and sins protected by silence.

The Dead of Inisbride is a dark Irish gothic novel of haunted memory, village secrets, religious guilt, lost children, and the dead who refuse to remain nameless.

Some houses are abandoned. Some are waiting. Some remember every soul that was locked inside.
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Imprint:   Black Bell Books
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   277g
ISBN:   9798235661349
Pages:   202
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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