Poem

Oíche Chiúin

Title	Oíche Chiúin
Author	Liam Prút

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Cnap-Uaisle	2008	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2302

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Cnap-Uaisle
Date of Publication	2008
Publisher	Coiscéim (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	28

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Death Penalty/Unlawful Detention/Incarceration HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear) Terrorism/War on Terror
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Global War on Terrorism War: Iraq War and Insurgency
Languages	Irish
Genre	song
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	*Bunaithe ar leagan Uí Choindealbháin den iomann. Foilsíodh in Lá sa dara leath de mhí Eanáir, 2005
Notes	This is a satirical rendering of 'Silent night', the Christmas Carol celebrating the birth of Christ. This speaker of the poem lambasts the US and George W. Bush for the horrors of the Iraq war, mentioning Guantánamo prison as housing Christ himself, and noting Saddam Hussein as a tyrant which the US forces are determined to oust from power. The speaker of the poem also describes war planes and bombs which attack Iraq. The final verse of the poem seems to hint at the real motivation of the Iraq War: profit and oil.

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