Thinking of Gaza as it Turns Midnight in TullamoreA Poem by Tomás Ó CárthaighIreland and Palestine have a shared experience, bar in Palestine its a returning folk of the same blood, whereas those born there've changed religion, language,culture, see the returnees as alien now.
Palestine and Ireland have a shared experience of occupation by a new peoples, and resisting that occupation, which brought even worse oppression of our peoples.
Except inPalestine, its a people who left there thousands of years before, and now return to seek freedom from oppression they suffered themselves. Is there any hope? In Ireland there was, and there will be for Palestine, as I outline how and why in my poem... Read it now >>> "Thinking of Gaza as it Turns Midnight in Tullamore" © 2014 Tomás Ó Cárthaigh |
StatsAuthorTomás Ó CárthaighRenmore, Galway, Ireland, An Roinne Mór, Gallaimh, Eire, IrelandAboutTen years on this site... a quick decade, and an age in another way... Flanagan and the Lampost The Novena, some Drama and Midge Ure in Galway Fiddling at Longford Donkey Innovat.. more..Writing
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