Poem

Crón Tráth na nDéithe

Title	Crón Tráth na nDéithe
Author	Thomas MacGreevy

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Collected Poems (MacGreevy)	1971	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2625

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Collected Poems (MacGreevy)
Date of Publication	1971
Publisher	New Writers' Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	24-31

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: First World War
Irish Context	Civil War (Ireland) Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Political Independence (Ireland) Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW I (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	How is the faithful city...become a harlot? - Isaiah I, 21. Her ghost wheels the barrow... - Old Dublin ballad. Easter Saturday, 1923.
Notes	This poem is primarily concerned with the Irish domestic situation in the years leading up to the Civil War. Among numerous European references, however, is an allusion to the 'Remember Belgium' campaign during WW1. This exact phrase appears in the poem.

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