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Guerrillas by Seamus Deane

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Seamus Deane’s beautiful poem probably derives from the experience of a child in the port city of Derry, encountering the foreign sailors and witnessing the city’s response to them.

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White Box

An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B

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Shot Lock

The lock image sums up the idea of confinement in a cell but the shot lock here is a symbol of freedom and the closed prison. It is prison practice to shoot (or set) all the bolts on the door locks (so that the doors cannot be closed) when a prison is unmanned.

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