18-06-2025
Read the Gaza poem by a Cork writer that featured on the Irish Examiner's front page
Award-winning Cork writer William Wall wrote a poem for the Irish Examiner, depicting how the city of Gaza has become like a cemetery.
Eyeless in Gaza was featured on the front page of Wednesday's paper. It was accompanied by a picture of a dead Palestinian girl who was found in a search and rescue operation carried out by locals after an Israeli attack targeting a house belonging to the Abu Shamal family in the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza.
Here is Wednesday's front page. You can read the poem in full below.
Wednesday's Irish Examiner front page.
Eyeless in Gaza
by William Wall
A city becomes a cemetery
A hospital becomes a morgue
Becomes a slaughterhouse
Becomes an ossuary
Dust in the eyes
And dust in the mouth
A gale of wind blows it all away
There will be no stumble-stones
For the hundreds of thousands
No railway platform memorial
From here departed
No films of children playing
Bella Ciao on a broken guitar
No museum of the death camp
That was their home
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