Poem

An Nuacht

Title	An Nuacht
Author	Liam Mac Uistín

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Cairt an Chroí	2000	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #521

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Cairt an Chroí
Date of Publication	2000
Publisher	An Clóchomhar Teoranta (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	31

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance Genocide War HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies HR & Natural Disasters
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Bosnian War Genocide: Bosnian Genocide
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of the poem describes the news in three vignettes: the first describing the war and genocide in Bosnia; the second describing an ongoing famine with starving children (this could be Ethiopia, but the famine is not specified); and the third showing the greed and avarice of the leaders of Europe, who hoard food and resources for themselves, despite the needs of the rest of the world. The speaker of the poem claims that the person who is laughing, hasn't seen the news - a comment on the power of media to inform us on the human rights violations ongoing in the world.

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