Poem

Last Blast

Title	Last Blast
Author	Billy Ramsell

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
The Coast Road	2016	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #223

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Coast Road
Date of Publication	2016
Publisher	The Gallery Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	63

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language) Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Deireadh na Feide
Original Author	Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem references the whistling language of the Aas people in the French Pyrenees, a language no longer spoken. The poem explores the usefulness of lesser-known languages: this whistling language was used to warn Jewish people of approaching danger, to assist lost World War II pilots across the Spanish border, and to pass along news of the French Résistance. Many of Ní Ghearbhuigh's poems included in this dataset can be discussed in the wider context of political and cultural rights.

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