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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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A Constable Calls

This poem by Heaney describes the uneasy relationship between Northern Ireland Catholics before the troubles and an armed police force.The ‘ticked,ticked ticked’ of the bicycle in the last line suggests an explosion about to happen, the eruption of violence out of these tense relationships.

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