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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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Another Day

‘Another Day’ was inspired by the lives of Bobby Sands and the nine other men who went on hunger strike in 1981 in Long Kesh prison, to secure basic human rights for political prisoners. Among their demands - the right not to wear prison uniforms, the right to organise their own educational and recreational facilities and the right to one weekly visit, letter and parcel. Bobby Sand wrote a collection of poignant short stories and poems whilst

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