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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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MORTAR | DEVICE

Over 70 six pointed stars photographed on Loyalist murals and other vernacular Unionist forms in Belfast - edited to remove the red hand and then animated. Mortar: Weapon used in trench warface. Cement used in brickwork Device: Constructed functional thing. A designed (visual, text or audio) form. Whilst not so noticed the six pointed star appears often amongst the visual icons of Northern Ireland, especially associated somewhat myst

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