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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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All the Little Children

This song is Sands’ attempt to look towards some light from the future, in a dark time after Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday. It captures the sense of innocence of childhood during the Troubles and the simplicity of the thought that one day “all the little children they can play” - together, as one because “all our blood is red”.

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