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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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White Box

An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B

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Dear Sarah

RTE drama based on the correspondence between Giuseppe Conlon and his wife Sarah after Conlon had been jailed for twelve years as one of the ‘Maguire Seven’. He had been wrongfully convicted of handling explosives after his son, Gerry had been jailed in 1975 for alleged involvement in the Guildford pub bombings. Original transmission: RTE 1990 (125mins) The script for ‘Dear Sarah’ was made by Irish broadcaster RTE after earlier

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