Ar an lá seo, 15 Eanáir

Ar an lá seo, 15 Eanáir, 1891, rugadh Osip Mandelstam (О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м,), file Rúiseach. Dán le Cathal Ó Searcaigh is ea Mandelstam ar Leabaidh a Bháis. Is féidir an bundán a léamh sa leabhar Na Saighneáin (Arlen House, 2014): Mandelstam on his Deathbed I challenged the mob that dismissed poetry as a feckless hobby I spoke of things forbidden to be told in this time of infamy Stalin, czar of horror, drew my blood for exposing his twisted ways But from my death wounds words will flow in a spate of truth to damn him for all eternity. I challenged the tyrant that suppressed my writings. My songs will be sung when he lies dumb in the earth.