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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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Resurrection Man

Marc Evans’ film based on the deeds of the loyalist gang the ‘Shankhill Butchers’ in 1970s Belfast. Victor Kelly, played by Stuart Townsend, is the leader of a gang of men known as ‘Resurrection Men’. Kelly’s ruthlessness makes him a local legend. A journalist, played by James Nesbitt, is on the trail of the gang, but he is putting himself at risk through his obsessive need to discover the truth about the ‘Resurrection Man’.

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