Machnamh ar Chogadh sa Liobáin

Publication Instance Details #411

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
Irish Context	Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	Iúil 2006
Notes	From the speaker's barn in Ireland, she hears a hawk killing the doves mercilessly. This is a comparison to the 2006 Lebanon War, sparked off in July 2006 by the abduction of IDF soldiers by Hezbollah forces. About 1,300 Lebanese people were killed, and over 1,000,000 displaced, while 165 Israelis were killed about about 300,000 displaced. In this poem, the speaker compares the war to the hawk hunting the doves - and she states that there is no point in appealing to the hawk's sense of mercy - as it doesn't have one. This is likely in reference to Israel's use of indiscriminate air strikes on civilian targets during the conflict.