Radharc ar an Abhainn Nua

Publication Instance Details #695

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	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language)
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century)
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The speaker of the poem reflects on the destruction of the 'real' America, and of the minoritization and commercialization of the Native American culture. This is expressed through a reference to a Daniel Day-Lewis film, 'The Last of the Mohicans', (1992). The landscape in the film, purporting to be the Hudson river, has in real life been taken over by housing estates and developments in the present day, so the speaker of the poem has to venture further to find the 'real' American landscape - the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. There, she reflects on the Native American peoples who once lived there. The destruction and colonization of the landscape reflects the fate of the Native peoples of America.