Poem

For Isaac Rosenberg

Title	For Isaac Rosenberg
Author	Cathal Ó Searcaigh

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Crann na Teanga/The Language Tree	2018	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #372

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Crann na Teanga/The Language Tree
Date of Publication	2018
Publisher	Irish Pages (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	156-157

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: First World War War: Bosnian War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Other
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Do Isaac Rosenberg
Original Author	Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This elegy honours Isaac Rosenburg, an Anglo-Jewish poet whose poems detail his experience as a soldier in WWI. In contrast to the horrors witnessed by Rosenburg, the speaker-poet reflects on his peaceful existence in Donegal, deeply aware of his relative privilege. Similar to other poems by Cathal Ó Searcaigh, the horror of war is juxtaposed with a personal love story in this poem. There is also an explicit reference in the poem to a contemporaneous war in Europe, most likely the Yugoslav Wars.

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