Poem

Aistriúcháin #8

Title	Aistriúcháin #8
Author	Gabriel Rosenstock

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Criss-Cross/Mo Chara	2011	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #1254

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Criss-Cross/Mo Chara
Date of Publication	2011
Publisher	Cló Iar-Chonnachta (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	120-121

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	Displacement/Forced Migration Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism
Irish Context	The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland) Minority/refugee rights (Ireland)
Languages	Irish
Original Language	English
Original Poem	Translations #8
Original Author	Gearóid Mac Lochlainn
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	Racism, xenophobia, and sectarianism explored in Northern Ireland's society by the speaker of the poem, who is watching TV in a Belfast bar. Incidents involving Latvians working on slave farms, Polish people burned out of their homes, and a Czech person attacked with a baseball bat are mentioned in the poem. The 'TV expert' on the lunchtime news tells the speaker that the pre-existing sectarian mindset allows for such racist and xenophobic attitudes to develop quickly. While the speaker of the poem witnesses two companions arguing about Poles and Protestants, the speaker notices American tourists leaving the bar in haste - he reflects that they're all just 'crazy Irish' to them after all. A change in the translation is that in the Irish-language version here, two Africans are kicked up the road instead of 'Fenians'.

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