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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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As with much of McGuckain’s work of this period this is a poem laden with the burden of the new hope developing in the 1990s, the ‘imperfect idol freedom’. Medbh McGuckian’s ‘over garrisoned city’ could be Belfast. The ‘trouble free future’ was anticipated by many in 1998.

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