Tréigint Eilean Hiort: cuimhní ceathrar.

Publication Instance Details #2774

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Displacement/Forced Migration Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Languages	Irish
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	1.Fuarthas an Luch Tí Hiortach (Mus Muralis) ar Oileán Hiort amháin agus bhí sí spléach ar mhuintir an oileáin dá cuid bia. Laistigh de bhliain théis tréigint an oileáin bhí sí imithe in éag go hiomlán. 2.Ainm Dhuibhneach don Fhulmaire (Fulmaris glacialis).
Notes	Abandonment of a Scottish island, Eilean Hiorta, witnessed by four individuals who view the event in different ways: a mouse, a human, a fulmar, and a dog who was drowned as the islanders abandoned the island. The abandonment of the island occurred 1930, with the islanders being relocated to the Scottish mainland, at their own request. For Irish readers, this is reminiscent of the abandonment of the Blasket Islands in 1953, after a period of harsh weather which left the islanders cut off from emergency services.The four speakers of the poem describe different aspects of island life, as well as the challenges and benefits of the human presence on the island, now gone. The human's perspective is the most illuminating in terms of human rights, with the character 'Lachlann Mac Dòmhnaill' describing the poverty and deprivation of the island, and maligning the likes of Rosseau, whose idea of the 'noble savage' promoted the idea of the inherent goodness of man, unexposed to civilization, in a natural Utopia. Mythological references to Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the druid Cathbad in final section of the poem.