Photograph

Publication Instance Details #399

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Genocide Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Holocaust
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Grianghraf
Original Author	Celia de Fréine
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	of Peter Schiff, the boy Anne Frank was in love with
Notes	The subtitle of this poem refers to a photograph of Peter Schiff, a young boy with whom Anne Frank was smitten. An aura of threat pervades the poem and there are explicit references to queues of people on the road, a train station, and the sound of marching boots. In the final stanza, there is an reference to the transportation of Jewish children to Northern Ireland for refuge during World War II.