(ix) Freagra an Fhir

Publication Instance Details #1852

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Gender-based violence Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Languages	Irish
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem is part of the lyric sequence, 'An Fear sa Ghealach'. In this poem, the narrator and the moon continue arguing - the narrator protests his innocence - he states that it isn't a crime to be a man - and says that he's well aware of the suffering of women. He also warns the moon not to boast so much, since her light is just the light of the sun. But the moon announces that she is going to tell him all the crimes of mankind - she convicts him of 'being a man', despite the narrator's protests that that is not a crime. There is also a reference in the first verse to the poor being ignored by the rich.