A Shared Home Place Poetry Oona fizzes with life and

Oona fizzes with life and hope

Ireland’s economy unravels

as ‘one in a tiny aristocracy of the mind who created the intellectual world we inhabit and whose writings will inspire scholars yet unborn’

this book is not for the easily offended

It includes a foreword by filmmaker John Boorman

A Shared Home Place Poetry Oona fizzes with life andAs one of Northern Irelands most prominent nationalist politicians, Seamus Mallon has always sought the genuine reconciliation of conflicting traditions using only peaceful means. This is his personal testament. In A Shared Home Place, Mallon evokes his happy childhood in the Protestant heartland of Markethill, south Armagh, and dwells on the turbulent years of constitutional politics in the maelstrom of near civil war during the 1970s and 19080s. He