Poem

Colditz

Title	Colditz
Author	Críostóir Ó Floinn

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Aisling Dhá Abhann	1977	Print Collection	View Details

Translations

Connected translations of this poem.

Title	Author	Collection/Anthology	Year	View Details
Mandelstam on his Deathbed	Cathal Ó Searcaigh	Crann na Teanga/The Language Tree	2018	View Details
Mandelstam on his Deathbed (Rosenstock)	Gabriel Rosenstock	An Fear Glas/The Green Man	2015	View Details

Publication Instance Details #329

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Aisling Dhá Abhann
Date of Publication	1977
Publisher	Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teoranta (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	18

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 Death Penalty/Unlawful Detention/Incarceration
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	Sardonic reflection on how one generation's 'war' is the next generation's entertainment. Speaker of the poem refers to a documentary programme about British soldiers' escape from the Colditz prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. A young British soldier shot dead by Germans as he tried to escape is eulogized in the programme. The speaker asks if same kind of programme will be made for the internee (presumably an IRA volunteer) shot dead by British troops the previous night as he attempted to escape from Long Kesh Detention Centre where paramilitary prisoners were kept during the Northern Irish conflict. There is strong hints of anti-British sentiment in this poem, and an implicit suggestion that IRA volunteers were also prisoners of war.

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