Longbhriseadh

Publication Instance Details #1879

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language) Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	'An occasional castaway or newcomer taken in battle learned a native language and provided the first firm clues about the customs and intentions of the invaders'. D.K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country.
Notes	This poem is contextualized well with the paratext from D.K. Richter, who wrote a history of Eastern America from the Native American's point of view, and highlighted that for three centuries after Columbus' arrival, much of the US was still under the control of Native American peoples. The poem explores some of this theme. The foreignness of the two factions (Native and Settler) to each other is explored through the language and cultural differences between both. Looming sense of impending disaster for the natives is present in the poem, as the contemporary reader understands their eventual fate.