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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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Muldoon seems to be reflecting about the inevitability of waste and death and the transience of all efforts to forestall them. The reference to men coming off hunger strike refers to the way in which the protest was wound up in 1981. Families of men who had committed themselves to dying broke the protest by assenting to medical help for the men when they slid into coma and could no longer voice their demand that they be allowed to die.

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