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

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At the Winter Park ski-holiday reunion who swans in only Stevie whose legs don’t take him far - he’d been tinkering under a car when the bomb went off. Answer: the skin. It’s Trivia night and we’re in with a chance. All the other tables are offering liver. What is the largest organ in the body? In Winter Park we’re triple-wrapped in thermals but he’s shirtless: a sophisticated instrument of thermo-regulation. Homoeostasis: the

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