Time was when the south was the home of predictable calm and the rumpus was north of the border. On Thursday afternoon, Queen Camilla sat in the front row of seats in the throne room at Hillsborough Castle. Behind her, side by side were the two women fronting Northern Ireland’s power-sharing administration, Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly. The occasion was a function called “Northern Ireland: Poets and Their Place”, curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author and writer Paul Muldoon, who was born in Portadown, Co Armagh. Muldoon’s many memorable poems include The Sightseers, an account of a family outing to see…

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