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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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Who Bombed Birmingham? (or The Investigation)

A dramatic interpretation of the story surrounding the IRA pub bombings in Birmingham in 1974, the jailing of the ‘Birmingham Six’ despite their claims of innocence and police brutality, and the journalists who went about investigating the case and the actual perpetrators in the IRA. One of the sources for screenwriter Rob Ritchie was said to have been the book by Chris Mullin MP: Error of Judgment: The Truth About the Birmingham Bombing

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