Poem

Black

Title	Black
Author	Paul Muldoon

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
The Fifty Minute Mermaid	2007	Print Collection	View Details
Human Rights Have No Borders: Voices of Irish Poets	1998	Print Anthology	View Details
Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia	1998	Print Anthology	View Details

Publication Instance Details #768

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Fifty Minute Mermaid
Date of Publication	2007
Publisher	The Gallery Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	17, 19

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Genocide Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Bosnian War Genocide: Bosnian Genocide
Irish Context	The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland) Great Famine (Ireland)
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Dubh
Original Author	Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	On the fall of Srebrenica, 11 July 1995
Notes	Written in response to massacre in Srebrenica, July 1995, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed. This genocide took place during the Bosnian War. The poem also refers briefly to sectarianism, and implicitly to the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland. There are many references to Irish folklore in this poem.

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