Poem

Ídiú

Title	Ídiú
Author	Dónall Ó Conaill

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Oilithreacht Saoil	2013	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #451

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Oilithreacht Saoil
Date of Publication	2013
Publisher	Glór na nGael (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	15

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of this poem describes in detail the results of starvation and deprivation on the human body. An atmosphere of death and decay hangs over the poem, while the speaker describes the appearance of the starved body before him - the bones sticking out, the swollen stomach, and the staring eyes. The speaker also underlines how human greed - the greed of life - has led to situations like this. Human selfishness is the cause of hunger and starvation in many.

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