I remember those days

Publication Instance Details #2765

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Bosnian War Genocide: Bosnian Genocide
Irish Context	Other
Languages	English
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	''Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid'' Vermeer The Royal Picture Gallery The Hague 2013
Notes	The speaker of the poem reflects on disaster and genocide in Bosnia through his memories of the Hague and of Mauritshuis, during the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Here, he uses a previous poem, 'Blown Away', which references the 'legions of the lost' of Bosnia, as part of the middle of this longer poem. He makes use of Vermeer's 'Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid' as part of the poem too. This is a famous a painting that was stolen by the IRA and recovered some years ago. There is also a reference to Miriam and the story of Moses, and a possible reference to the poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's collection 'Pharaohs Daughter'. The poem also mentions the English wars in the Netherlands, which occurred in the 17th Century.