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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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Danny (Stephen Rea) is a saxophonist with a traveling band. After a gig, he witnesses the murder of the band’s manager and a deaf mute girl. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. He tries to discover why they were killed but finds only more questions, which resonate with the wider context of the political and social situation in Northern Ireland. Danny soon becomes obsessed with tracking down

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