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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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Lament for a Dead Policeman

James Simmons explores the feelings of a Protestant woman whose Catholic husband, a policeman, has been shot dead by the IRA. Over 300 police men and women were murdered, many of them like the man in this poem, in front of their families.

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