Poem

Conscription

Title	Conscription
Author	Dora Sigerson Shorter

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
The Tricolour: Poems of the Irish Revolution	1922	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2563

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Tricolour: Poems of the Irish Revolution
Date of Publication	1922
Publisher	Maunsel and Roberts, Limited (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	8

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
War / Genocide Referenced	War: First World War
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) WW I (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem depicts conscription in WW1 as a looming disaster. The narrator invokes numerous deities to defend Ireland.

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