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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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Manifestation

The juxtaposition of the Falls/Shankill peace wall with the perimeter wall of the Maze Prison goes right back to my core theme. The peace wall is a concrete manifestation of the barriers that exist in our minds – it is the physical result of differing cultural identities and viewpoints. It looks more like a prison wall than the real prison wall does.

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