Maidir le Beairtle...

Publication Instance Details #2593

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War War: Vietnam War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Long (narrative) Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of the poem is Beairtle, who describes living in the modern world, and recounts some of the current affairs of the time. This poem is dense with Irish mythological references, including mentions of Clann Lir, fairies, Ailill, and various characters to whom Beairtle is compared. There are also numerous references to the events of the entire century that Beairtle has just witnessed, with mentions of media, newspapers, the coming of the internet, the bombing of Dresden and Nagasaki during World War II, Vietnamese monks self-immolating during the Vietnam War, Dili in East Timor, different lyrics from songs, mythological Irish characters and battles, and biblical characters such as Lazarus.