Poem

The Grand Conversation

Title	The Grand Conversation
Author	Paul Muldoon

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Moy Sand and Gravel	2002	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3090

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Moy Sand and Gravel
Date of Publication	2002
Publisher	Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s)	45-46

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 Genocide HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear) Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Great Famine (Ireland) The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This dialogue poem has two speakers, a man and a woman. They take turns recounting the history of their family and people. There is a common thread of violence and oppression in their accounts. The Jewish speaker references pogroms by the Cossacks, as well as the violence of war (presumably World War II). The male speaker references the Great Irish Famine, sectarian violence perpetrated by the Peep o' Day Boys and possibly contemporary sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

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