A Shared Home Place
A Shared Home Place by Seamus Mallon, published by Lilliput Press in 2019, is an illustrated memoir that provides a primary source for understanding the social and political history of Northern Ireland. This book covers significant events from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s through the 1990s peace process, offering insights into Mallon’s experiences as a prominent Catholic nationalist politician. His narrative reflects on his upbringing in a predominantly Protestant village and his role during a tumultuous period marked by violence and political strife.
In this memoir, Mallon shares his personal journey and the challenges he faced as a constitutional politician, including the threats from both loyalist and republican factions. He emphasizes his contributions to the peace process alongside John Hume, detailing the efforts required to achieve a lasting agreement with the Ulster Unionists. As he advocates for a new beginning in Northern Ireland, Mallon proposes an innovative approach to Irish unity that hinges on unionist consent, drawing from a lesser-known clause in the Good Friday Agreement. This edition, comprising 210 pages, is presented in English and invites readers to engage with a vital chapter of history through the lens of a key figure in the region’s political landscape.
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This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace process and beyond. Its authentic voice lends it a vitality and an urgency that illuminates our recent past. In this book, Mallon describes his happy upbringing in South Armagh as a Catholic in a 90% Protestant village; his turbulent years as a constitutional politician in the violent maelstrom of near-civil war, when he was the target of both loyalist violence and republican vilification; and his central role in the peace process as the man who complemented John Hume, doing the ‘spade-work’ to reach a hard-won deal with the Ulster Unionists. Now in his eighty-third year, he calls for a new beginning in Northern Ireland, based on the ideal that it is a shared home place for all its people, and that Irish unity can only come about through unionist consent. His surprising and innovative proposal, based on a little-known clause in the Good Friday Agreement, shows how this might be implemented.
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