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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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Omagh Bomb Memorial

Major public artwork consisting of massive glass pillar on the bombsite which carries inside a large cut-glass heart made by Tyrone Crystal. The brief demanded the artwork link the bombsite to the Memorial Garden 300yds. away around a corner. The work achieves this by a sun-tracking mirror system in the garden that collects sunlight, bounces it off 31 small pole mounted mirrors, to correspond with the number of deaths, and sends this light up a

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