A Shared Home Place Poetry as the kingfisher becomes his

as the kingfisher becomes his Holy Grail

Tony Varley and Catriona Clear examinesocial and political issues

His clients became his friends

This valentine to Ireland is now gathered into one resonant volume of images and visual epiphanies

It includes a foreword by filmmaker John Boorman

A Shared Home Place Poetry as the kingfisher becomes hisAs 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