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An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B

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Derek Mahon describes a domesticated suburbia in which mortality and danger do not trouble people. The closing ‘I live here too’ seems to echo the excuse often made by people who endured but would not criticise the paramilitaries, though in the poem, the communal secret so tightly preserved is that life has greater challenges than the ordinary daily concerns.