One Last Scene - Derry Girls and Writing Ceasefire

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17.4 هزار بار بازدید - 7 ماه پیش - 'So hope for a great
'So hope for a great sea-change / On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore / Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracle / And cures and healing wells.'

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Timestamps:
0:07 Ménos
3:46 Protestants Hate ABBA
14:19 Ceasefire
17:05 One Last Scene
25:29 Conclusion

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Works cited:
Derry Girls, various episodes, Channel 4, 2018-22.
The Derry Journal (on the impact of the 1994 ceasefire): https://www.derryjournal.com/news/pol...
Documentary footage of the GFA's result readout: N. IRELAND: 71 PERCENT VOTE YES IN PE...
Homer, Iliad, trans. Stanley Lombardo, Hackett, 1997.
Maureen Alden, Michael Longley's Ceasefire and The Iliad, 'Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016', Oxford University Press, 2020. https://academic.oup.com/book/33508/c...
Michael Longley, Ceasefire, 1994. https://poetryarchive.org/poem/ceasef...
Seamus History's 'Hope and history rhyme' line, as well as the lines quoted atop this description, can be found in this extract from The Cure At Troy: https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/wp-...

Works shown:
https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/netfl...
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-re...
The public domain deaths chart is from: https://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/...
The piece shown in the ending credits is the Shield of Achilles by Spencer Finch, 2017.

Sources for miscellaneous claims:
The moral outrage in response to the early release of paramilitary prisoners:
Michael von Tagen Page, A Farewell to Arms?, 'Long War to Long Peace in Northern Ireland', Manchester University Press, 2000. (accessed here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland...)
The 'splash' Ceasefire made in NI and ROI is also in:
Maureen Alden, Michael Longley's Ceasefire and The Iliad, 'Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016', Oxford University Press, 2020. https://academic.oup.com/book/33508/c...
The undermining of WW1 ceasefires by officers:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h...
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-re...

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Timestamps:
0:07 Ménos
3:46 Protestants Hate ABBA
14:19 Ceasefire
17:05 One Last Scene
25:29 Conclusion

In the finale of Lisa McGee's Derry Girls, we return to Derry one year later, as the gang prepare for their final year of school. It's the week of the Good Friday Agreement, but its timing couldn't be any worse, as Erin and Orla's joint 18th birthday party threatens to be overshadowed.
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