Ar Uaigh Kharl Marx

Publication Instance Details #1868

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance Genocide
Irish Context	The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	26 Meán Fómhair 1974
Notes	The speaker of the poem describes a trip to the resting place of Karl Marx. The speaker of the poem describes Marx as a revolutionary, who killed God, and who was friend of the proletariat. The poem also mentions bombs, protests, concentration camps, the cause of Ireland (likely the Troubles, based on publication date), and hunger in India (Bangladesh Famine of 1974, perhaps) - as part of a discussion with the others present at the grave. The moment is ruined by a group of Chinese people - armed with cameras, which the poem describes as the new machine guns of our age.