Poem

A Remarkable Admission

Title	A Remarkable Admission
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

Publication Instance Details #788

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Fifty Minute Mermaid
Date of Publication	2007
Publisher	The Gallery Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	87, 89

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Displacement/Forced Migration Genocide
Irish Context	Emigration (from Ireland) Irish Language/Culture Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Great Famine (Ireland)
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Admháil Shuaithinseach
Original Author	Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This sequence of poems, 'Na Murúcha a Thriomnaigh', makes use of the international folk tale of the mermaid to construct an allegorical world in which the merpeople have left the water and now live uneasily among humankind on land. This is the only poem in the sequence in which 'ethnic cleansing' is mentioned as an explanation for the mermaids' displacement. The Great Famine and Irish cultural loss are understood to be implicit in this sequence of poems. It should also be noted that this sequence was composed during the Bosnian War (1992-1995).

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