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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2017-10-31</publicationDate>
        <volume>12.2</volume>
    <issue>12.2</issue>
        <startPage>107</startPage>
    <endPage>121</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>7605</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Of Mermaids and Changelings: Human Rights, Folklore and Contemporary Irish Language Poetry ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Rióna Ní Fhrighil ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ NUI Galway, Ireland ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ This article investigates the intersection of human rights discourse, Irish folklore and contemporary Irish-language poetry. The author contends that contemporary Irish-language poets Louis de Paor and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill exploit the multi-faceted nature of international folklore motifs, along with their local variants, to represent human rights violations in their poetry. Focusing specifically on the motif of the changeling in De Paor’s poetry and on the motif of the mermaid in Ní Dhomhnaill’s, the author traces how folklore material is reimagined in ways that eschew uncomplicated transnational solidarity but which engender empathetic settlement.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Irish-Language Poetry</keyword>
              <keyword>Mermaid</keyword>
              <keyword>Changeling</keyword>
              <keyword>Evil Eye</keyword>
              <keyword>Empathy</keyword>
              <keyword>Universal Human Rights</keyword>
              <keyword>Acts of Witnessing</keyword>
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