Deichniúr ón bhFrainc

Publication Instance Details #2102

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem describes clear colonial violence by the French against the Iroquoi people of Canada and the reprisals of the Iroquoi against their colonizers. The speaker of the poem seems to note how the 10 men from France in the poem seem to be well-remembered in public monuments while the murdered Iroquai people are not commemorated at all. This account may refer to the event: In 1672, King Louis XIV of France granted fiefdoms bordering to Louis de Berthé, Lord of Chailly, and to his brother Gabriel. One of these adjacent fiefdoms was called Bellevue, due to its good views to the east and west. In 1677, the Parish of Saint-Louis-du-Bout-de-l'Île, was founded: Jean de Lalonde was the first church warden. In 1687, Lalonde and four other parishioners were killed in a skirmish with the Iroquois. In 1703, the parish was closed and its registers moved to Lachine because of the constant threat from the Iroquois.