Fuil mo chuid fola

Publication Instance Details #1866

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 HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Terrorism/War on Terror
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Global War on Terrorism War: Iraq War and Insurgency
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland) Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	Tá lámh an tSacsanaigh láidir crua - is neart a cheart, is deargár a bhua; is bréag a mhóide, is is fuilteach a lann, is is mithid domh éaló ar sáile anonn. Nioclás Ó Cearnaigh, Ar sáile Anonn
Notes	The paratext is from 19th-century poet Nioclás Ó Cearnaigh, and describes the power and malice of the colonizing English. In the poem itself, the speaker is perturbed by young men from Belfast going to fight in the British Army during the invasion of Iraq, under the emblem of the Irish Guards. This disturbs him as the young soldiers in Iraq will be doing to Iraqis what the British soldiers in Northern Ireland did to him - namely, stopping and searching. The speaker cannot understand why members of a colonized people would participate in a colonial-style war themselves, in Iraq.