Thinking of Gaza as it Turns Midnight in Tullamore

Thinking of Gaza as it Turns Midnight in Tullamore

A Poem by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
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Ireland 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.

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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...


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"Thinking of Gaza as it
Turns Midnight in Tullamore"


© 2014 Tomás Ó Cárthaigh


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Added on July 28, 2014
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Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Renmore, Galway, Ireland, An Roinne Mór, Gallaimh, Eire, Ireland



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