Poem

Máireoigín an Oilc

Title	Máireoigín an Oilc
Author	Seán Hutton

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Seachrán Ruairí	1986	Print Collection	View Details
Duanaire an Chéid	2000	Print Anthology	View Details

Publication Instance Details #103

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Seachrán Ruairí
Date of Publication	1986
Publisher	Coiscéim (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	30

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	War HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear) Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Vietnam War Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem describes the 'Marionette of Evil', likely here to be referring to someone speaking on behalf of the United States of America. The speaker of the poem describes the suffering inflicted on Mai Lai (Vietnam) and Wounded Knee (Genocide of Native American peoples), and the smell of cordite (an explosion) and napalm (incendiary mixture) from the words of the 'marionette'. The speaker shows this person in a disturbing way, presenting him as a skull covered up with a smile - and with the shadow of the mushroom cloud (from a nuclear bomb) in his iris. The speaker, at the end of the poem, states that he himself is very afraid of this 'marionette'.

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