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Publication Instance Details #395

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	State Violence War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	teanga
Original Author	Celia de Fréine
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This collection of poetry is mostly based in Slovenia. This poem refers to the poet-speaker seeing graffiti, which makes derogatory reference to the 'G8', the so-called 'Group of Eight', the eight most wealthy liberal democracies in the world (now G7 after Russia's departure). There is a reference to a writer speaking of partisans and fascists, in the same location where this graffiti is now located. The poet-speaker refers to her role among the locals, who defer to her as she is a native English speaker.