Poem

Christmas in Kinsale

Title	Christmas in Kinsale
Author	Derek Mahon

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
The Yellow Book	1997	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #1988

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Yellow Book
Date of Publication	1997
Publisher	The Gallery Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	56-57

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	Displacement/Forced Migration HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned
Languages	English
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	Beyond the branches he saw the roof of her hut shining against the galactic spawn. -- Aidan Higgins, Flotsam and Jetsam
Notes	Refers to the "nuclear wind from Windscale" (the Windscale fire in 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain's history), "container bodies", as well as more ambiguous "zealots" in "Sinai and Everest".

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