'The Guilty Men'

Publication Instance Details #1649

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Suez Crisis
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	(Suez 1956 - An Liobáin agus an Phalaistín 2006) 15 Márta/25 Nollaig 2006
Notes	The 'Guilty Men' of the poem's title seems to refer to a 1957 publication by Michael Foot and Mervyn Jones in which they discussed the Suez crisis. The British government is described here as being like Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot in their duplicitous dealings relating to the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, a crisis that occurred when Israeli forces pushed into Egypt after Nasser, Egyptian President, nationalised the canal. The paratext also refers to the Lebanon War of 2006, which involved Israeli and Hezbollah fighters in conflict after the kidnapping of IDF soldiers by Hezbollah. The speaker implies that the British government's duplicitous actions in the Suez crisis are being replicated here.