Poem

Mairgneach na mná i mBaghdad

Title	Mairgneach na mná i mBaghdad
Author	Cathal Ó Searcaigh

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Gúrú i gClúidíní	2006	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #268

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Gúrú i gClúidíní
Date of Publication	2006
Publisher	Cló Iar-Chonnachta (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	49

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Terrorism/War on Terror HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Global War on Terrorism War: Iraq War and Insurgency
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The title of this indicates that the first-person speaker is a woman in Baghdad, Iraq, lamenting the destruction of Iraq. The speaker mentions various place-names in Iraq - Hillah, Kut, Nassiriya, Rumaila - and refers to the effects of the war in each: rotting bodies, war planes, bullets, guns. 'Tá an bás i mo chroí anocht' - 'death is in my heart tonight' is a refrain in the poem, appearing at the beginning of each stanza. In the final stanza, the speaker of the poem attempts to speak with 'Death', but he cannot understand the language of the living.

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