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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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The Outsider

Disillusioned after service in Vietnam, a young Irish-American goes to Ireland and offers his services to the Provisional IRA, having been inspired by his grandfather’s stories of heroism. However when he arrives, he is greeted not by a cause worth dying for, but even more moral uncertainty. Both the IRA and the British Army try to use him for their own ends. ‘The Outsider’ by Colin Leinster (New English Library Ltd) ISBN 0450046435

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