Diongó

Publication Instance Details #2197

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) Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in Australia (pre 20th century)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of the poem notes the destruction of the tribes who used to send hunting dogs after dingos in Australia. This is likely to refer to the Aboriginal Australian peoples. The speaker of the poem laments how those in areas such as Ballan (a small settlement that used to be an aboriginal area) or Bungaree (a an area named after a significant Aboriginal character) don't remember the dingo any longer either. Both the tribes of native peoples and the animals they hunted are a distant memory in modern Australia, both suffering under colonial legacies.