Éadaí Éagsúla

Publication Instance Details #139

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Gender-based violence Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism Terrorism/War on Terror
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Global War on Terrorism War: War in Afghanistan
Languages	Irish
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of this poem discusses the various clothing items worn by Muslim women. The speaker understands and highlights her own biased feelings against some of the clothing items, such as the Niqab and Burka (in the context of 9/11 and the War on Terror/War in Afghanistan), but also acknowledges how one would wish to be covered from the eyes of men in some instances. The underlying theme of the poem is gender, and the speaker, in the final verse, talks about the challenges and discrimination facing young women in the Muslim world. These issues include lack of freedom to marry, lack of education, honour killings in cases of relationships before marriage, and a general lack of agency. The speaker is bemused that such things are allowed to happen in the world in 2005 (the time of the poem's writing).