Eugène Delacroix
La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830)
Freedom
She is bare-breasted, La Liberté Leading the People,
The Tricolour in her right hand
and in her left, a bayoneted rifle
Notice too, however, with bare feet
Freedom is trampling those beneath her
An tSaoirse
An Treorú na nDaoine, is a dhá cíoch
nochta don domhan mór. An Trídhathach ina lámh dheas
raidhfil is beaignit uirthi ina lámh chlé
Tabhair faoi deara, áfach, na daoine atá fúithi
Agus an tSaoirse ag satailt orthu
An ekphrastic poem by Najwan Darwish, inspired by a masterpiece by
Delacroix. English and Irish versions by Gabriel Rosenstock.
Najwan Darwish is a prolific Palestinian poet from Jerusalem:
