Faiche Richmond (II) Ceacht Staire: Ár Ré Dhearóil

Publication Instance Details #1652

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Terrorism/War on Terror HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear) State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War War: Korean War War: War in Afghanistan
Irish Context	Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	- Do Jim agus Do Terry
Notes	This poem is the second section of the lyric sequence, 'Faiche Richmond'. The subtitle here is likely inspired by Ó Direáin's 'Ár Ré Dhearóil' poetry collection. In this section, the speaker of the poem describes some of the wars and conflicts that have occurred since his own birth in the 1940s. He mentions the Blitz of London, the nuclear bombing of Japan, the Berlin Blockade of the Cold War, The Chinese Civil War, The Korean War, and the War in Afghanistan. The speaker notes that the four horsemen of the Apocalypse have certainly been busy - a mythological biblical reference. The poem ends on a criticism of promises of 'freedom' and 'democracy' in the post Cold War world, with the blame going mostly to the actions of the 'Eagle of Freedom', the United States, which assumed primacy of the world order after the fall of the USSR.