Poem

An Lá go dTáinig Siad

Title	An Lá go dTáinig Siad
Author	Derry O'Sullivan

Instances of Publication

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Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
An Lá go dTáinig Siad	2005	Print Collection	View Details

Translations

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Title	Author	Collection/Anthology	Year	View Details
So That No Light Would Be There to Love Us	Eavan Boland	After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets	2004	View Details

Publication Instance Details #1359

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	An Lá go dTáinig Siad
Date of Publication	2005
Publisher	Coiscéim (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	7-52

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism State Violence Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War Genocide: Holocaust
Irish Context	Irish Language/Culture Great Famine (Ireland)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Long (narrative) Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This extended poem is split into three sections: 'An Lá go dTáinig Siad' (The Day That They Arrived), 'An Chéad Léibheann' (The First Level), and 'An Dara Léibheann' (The Second Level). This extended work details the life of a young Jewish girl in Paris, who was taken by the Nazis after the fall of France during World War II. The speaker of the poem is the Jewish girl herself, Sarah, who describes different aspects of her life both before and after the Germans arrived. The poem also contains many references to Irish folklore and mythology in the body of the poem, as well as referring to the Great Irish Famine. As the poem progresses, the 'voice' of the young girl changes, in parts, to an abstract, universal voice of humanity, which castigates the unnecessary suffering and crimes of the world.

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