Frithluail Phavlovach

Publication Instance Details #2597

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second Anglo-Boer War War: First World War
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Political Independence (Ireland) Irish Language/Culture Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW I (Ireland)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Prose Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	A 'stream of consciousness' poem, written from the perspective of a man of the Pale area of Ireland. The poem touches on various aspects of Irish identity in the early twentieth century, including mentions of World War I, the Boer War, Irish participation in the British Army, Independence, Home Rule, John Redmond, and the legacy of the Irish language. The speaker of the poem strongly hints at the end that he met his end during World War I. The title of the poem refers to a 'Pavlovian Response', a form of classical conditioning in which a biologically potent item, such as food, is paired with a neutral stimulus, such as a bell, i.e. dog's mouth waters at the sound of the bell, as it was rung when food was previously brought.