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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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If it wasn’t for the border

The song is about opportunism in the face of adversity - people who live in border areas have always found a way to work the situation to their advantage, whether working legally as customs officials, security guards and currency dealers or earning below the radar income as smugglers or as other universal practitioners of the darker arts.

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