Michael Davitt's Gaelic poem O my two Palestinians between nationalism and humanism

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I devoted this paper to read the humanistic and nationalistic menings in Michael Davitt’s Gaelic poem “O My Two Palestinians”.

He composed the poem after watching a television report 011 the massacre committed against innocent Palestinians in Beirut.

Davitt was greatly influenced by the film and passed through a metamorphosis believing - at a certain moment - that those two innocent Palestinian children were his.

He went upstairs to check 011 his own children; he found them sleeping in their beds.

At the nationalistic level, Davitt fights for his identity, culture, and freedom.

The paper demonstrates an attempt to find identical factors of the Palestinian and Irish national struggles and their related literatures.

In the end, it remains that the humanistic feelings are more honest and authentic than ethnicity and regionalism; man’s fight for freedom is appreciated.

The poem is a new remarkable qualitative addition to the long list of the Irish literature calling for freedom and independence.