1992

Publication Instance Details #625

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	9/1/1992
Notes	The title of this poem, '1992', gives hints as to its meaning. There are oblique references to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the poem, although the speaker also says that new walls are also being built. The Somali famine (1992) was also ongoing at this time and had been caused by sectarian violence and looting in the country. It is likely that this is what the speaker is referring to when he states that if 'lón cogaidh' could be eaten, there would be no hunger. This is a play on the word 'lón', meaning both 'lunch' and in this case, 'war munitions'.