The Professional Art of Mourning | Ireland News

Step back into a time when grief was performed, not private—meet the ancient, traveling keening women, professional mourners whose haunting songs shaped funeral rites across Europe and beyond. Far from modern sanitization, these rituals were communal catharsis, sometimes involving raw physical expression, and even inspired 19th-century English observers (who often disapproved). Expert Ann Moylan reveals how people saved for wakes, treated keeners like artists, and even reconstructed what their cries might’ve sounded like—a chilling echo of a lost world where death was met with public, visceral emotion. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/913445a5117dbab2