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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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Madonna Irlanda (1977)

Michael Farrell’s Miss O’Murphy series is based on a series of paintings of a nude reclining on a chaise longue by the French artist François Boucher (1703 - 1770). The most widely held view is that the model is Louise O’Murphy, the daughter of an Irish soldier.

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