Poem

Nithe Ceilte

Title Nithe Ceilte
Author Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

Instances of Publication

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Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
Tost agus Allagar 2016 Print Collection View Details
The Coast Road 2016 Print Collection View Details

Translations

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Title Author Collection/Anthology Year View Details
Child Soldier Deirdre Brennan Cuislí Allta/Wild Pulses: Rogha Dánta/Selected Poems 2017 View Details
Publication Instance Details #80
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Tost agus Allagar
Date of Publication 2016
Publisher Coiscéim (Ireland)
Page Number(s) 43
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Details
Human Rights Issues
Irish Context
Languages
Genre Short Lyric
Medium Print Collection
Notes The first-person speaker of this poem encounters a Hispanic shopkeeper in the United States who stereotypes her as a wealthy American WASP (white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant), and refuses to speak English to her. The speaker of the poem responds to his Spanish in Irish, and reflects on the colonial pasts of both of their native countries. Many of Ní Ghearbhuigh's poems included in this dataset can be discussed in the wider context of political and cultural rights.
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