Aifreann na Marbh, a long poem by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc included in Lux Aeterna (1964). Written in the form of a requiem mass, it commemorates the victims of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, and depicts a journey through Dublin at the same time.
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Aifreann na Marbh, a long poem by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc included in Lux Aeterna (1964). Written in the form of a requiem mass, it commemorates the victims of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, and depicts a journey through Dublin at the same time.
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