Poem

Iarmhairt Slógtha 1989, II

Title	Iarmhairt Slógtha 1989, II
Author	Pádraig Breandán Ó Laighin

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Ealaín Draoi agus Adhlacadh Éabha	1990	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2081

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Ealaín Draoi agus Adhlacadh Éabha
Date of Publication	1990
Publisher	Coiscéim (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	55

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	Death Penalty/Unlawful Detention/Incarceration Democracy/elections/public participation State Violence HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	Following on from the poem 'Iarmhairt Slógtha 1989 I', the speaker of the poem continues to discuss the aftermath of the Shanghai train burning, here describing the seventeen other men who were arrested and sentenced to death for their supposed part in the event, the day after the three main perpetrators met the same fate. The Chinese government is quick to mark them as poor navvies and labourers, or unemployed, in an attempt to discredit them. The speaker of the poem also highlights also how minoritized peoples have been treated in the past: i.e. Native Americans by the likes of Puritanical preacher Cotton Mathers, and Gaelic Irish by the Anglo-Irish who ran the Cistercian monasteries in Granard and Ennis, who participated in colonial activities in Ireland.

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