Poem

Marine

Title Marine
Author Pól Ó Muirí

Instances of Publication

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Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
D-Day 1995 Print Collection View Details

Translations

Connected translations of this poem.

Title Author Collection/Anthology Year View Details
The Lament for Henryk Piotrowski Paddy Bushe Irish Pages, 9 (2): Israel, Islam, and the West 2015 View Details
Tren Ku Czci Henryka Piotrowskiego John Kearns Irish Pages, 9 (2): Israel, Islam, and the West 2015 View Details
Publication Instance Details #2613
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology D-Day
Date of Publication 1995
Publisher Lagan Press Poetry (Northern Ireland)
Page Number(s) 56
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
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No
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Details
Human Rights Issues
War / Genocide Referenced
Irish Context
Languages
Genre Short Lyric
Medium Print Collection
Notes This poem describes an American soldier of Irish ancestry washed up on a Mayo beach. The grandmother figure in the poem sings 'isn't it amazing that he made his own way home?' The soldier was likely a recent emigrant, or a first-generation Irish-American.
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