A Shared Home Place – Seamus Mallon Bond Street was a Protestant and Loyalist heartland which celebrated its historical totems with vigour. Growing up in the Waterside area of Derry, I can share and empathise with Seamus Mallon’s memories of his childhood. Our neighbours and the majority
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‘Let me smell your breath!’ , Ian Paisley demanded of Martin Bell, the BBC’s Northern Ireland correspondent during the early years of ‘ The Troubles’. Bell had asked for a comment on a recent display of militarism in East Belfast by a loyalist group. The exchange was
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