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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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The Butchers

Michael Longley’s extraordinarily vivid and bloody poem, The Butchers, suggests by its title and the reference to the bog meadow that it relates to the Shankill Butchers Gang which attacked random Catholics in the 1970s and tortured them with knives before killing them.

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