Mass of the dead

Publication Instance Details #1236

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Irish Context	Irish Language/Culture WW II (Ireland) Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Emigration (from Ireland) Political Independence (Ireland)
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Aifreann na Marbh
Original Author	Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Anthology
Paratext Text	For those who died at Hiroshima Monday, 6 August, 1945 To represent in words human transcedence Is impossible; but let the example suffice For him for whom Grace reserves this experience. PARADISO
Notes	Colbert Kearney translates Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's masterwork, 'Aifreann na Marbh'. One of the most significant works of twentieth-century Irish literature. Ó Tuairisc explores his grief for the people of Hiroshima through a journey through Dublin, which itself has been destroyed by the bomb, as have the people of Hiroshima. All of humanity has been implicated in the creation and use of the atomic bomb. Ó Tuairisc's poem contains a wealth of references: historical, cultural, cinematic, architectural, philosophical, mythological. The Celtic, Christian, and Classical traditions are here merged in an attempt to make sense of the greatest disaster of the twentieth century. The poem is a lyric sequence, structured almost identically to the pre-Vatican II Latin mass, with nine sections, all with Latin titles relating to an aspect of the mass.