Our side of the house / Michael Kerr

'Is he from our side of the house?' Is he, in other words, a Catholic? It was a question Michael Kerr heard often when he was growing up in Northern Ireland during the worst years of the troubles. But his was a house where both sides were welcome; a seaside boarding house that was home to a family of eleven and temporary residence for hundreds more. In this memoir, he recalls an occupied Ireland with a difference. There were no soldiers on the street, but an army of strangers in the beds