Harnessing the Potential of the Good Friday Agreement: The Shared Island Initiative

When a colleague and I visited Seamus Mallon in his Markethill, County Armagh home in 2019, Seamus was in declining physical health, but mentally he was as razor sharp as I had ever found him over our many years working together.

We sat for some hours, and Seamus used the view out of his kitchen windows to tell the story of the tension and conflict and interdependence between the communities in this part of the country and in the country as a whole – not over the course of his extraordinary career and life, but over the course of centuri