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Publication Instance Details #3173

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Genocide State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Gulf War War: Bosnian War Genocide: Bosnian Genocide
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem describes aspects of late twentieth-century warfare in this poem - the fall of the Berlin wall and the bombing and killing in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war and genocide in particular. Also noted in the poem are the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the Gulf War.The 'stones of our age' are used by the speaker of the poem to underline the most prevalent acts of war in recent years: 'beirlínit'' 'sairéivít'; 'béarúitít'; 'doirít'; 'inisceithlinnít', and so forth. The speaker reflects that perhaps the best name for the rock of our age is 'fuilít' or 'bloodite' in honour of the many killings and bloodshed that has occured. 'Bloodite' is a mix of concrete, human skin, graffiti, blood, urine, lead from machine guns, and the fragments of visions of freedom.