Comhbhá

Publication Instance Details #635

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
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Other
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	- Rinne mé an dán seo i ndiaidh an Chogaidh, 1945.
Notes	The paratext indicates that this poem was written about World War II. In the poem, the speaker describes how human idealism and progress (the white tower) was knocked over in the field of battle during the war. The mention of the 'file Gallda' the 'English/foreign poet' is mysterious. This person is not named in the poem, although their words appear to have some import. Dáithí Ó Bruadair, Irish poet, is also mentioned, however, in the context of being able to understand the sadness and conflict of the war. This is likely in reference to Ó Bruadair's living through the end of the old Gaelic order and his lamentation of the impoverishment of Ireland as a result.