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- Title
"WE ARE NO LONGER GAELS": WAR AND CONFLICT IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY IRISH-LANGUAGE POETRY.
- Authors
Eoin, Máirín Nic
- Abstract
This article examines a body of poetry by modern and contemporary writers in Irish that addresses issues of war and international conflict. Drawing on the insights of Jahan Ramazani in his discussion of modern elegy, and citing a recent article by David Wheatley on contemporary war and the non-combatant poet, the article examines some of the strategies employed by Irish-language poets to address the ethical and aesthetic challenges of representing political violence and injustice. The article commences with poetic responses to the Second World War, then discusses poems motivated by the Vietnam War, and concludes with a consideration of works published since the early 1990s, a period during which poetry about war has emerged as a significant sub-genre in Irish-language writing. It argues that the best poems on the subject of violent conflict are those that address what Wheatley identifies as "the shortfall between artistic and actual justice."Poets whose work is discussed include Máirtín Ó Direáin, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Caitlín Maude, Louis de Paor and Biddy Jenkinson.
- Subjects
IRISH Gaelic language; MODERN poetry; INTERNATIONAL conflict; RAMAZANI, Jahan; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; JUSTICE
- Publication
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 55, p96
- ISSN
0862-8424
- Publication type
Article