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The Day the Poppy Met the Shamrock
Dezi Jay M

The Day the Poppy Met the Shamrock

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Dezi Jay M.

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Dezi Jay M is an author, actor, actor, singer and activist. In addition to his pursuits in the field of the performing arts, he writes on a wide range of themes and topics, reflecting his outlook and convictions that have been shaped by his own life experience. More information is available from his website.

The Day the Poppy Met the Shamrock is a personal account that deals with the problem of homelessness, charting one person’s journey from homelessness to resettlement: not just a matter of physical abode but also the deeper, more searching question of finding a home within oneself. God does not close one door without opening another.

Dezi Jay M. grew up in Coolock, Dublin amidst abuse and addiction. At the age of 17, he was treated for compulsive gambling and later alcoholism, which took over his life for a while. He experienced several periods of homelessness, including that following the break-up of his marriage, in 2008.

This is the story of the author’s struggle within himself, leading to the epiphany that he experienced on a November day, during a graveside commemoration in a town in Belgium, marking the end of the First World War. It was an experience that helped him to put his life into perspective. The profound sense of history that he felt on that occasion is described here in absorbingly vivid and moving detail.

"It was a very cold day, though far from the conditions in the trenches during the fighting. With God's grace, I held the Irish flag above my head in the cold for one and a half hours, with the poppy on my heart while a Belgian bishop celebrated Mass. Yes, someone was looking after me; my heart was going in the right direction, releasing a long-held bitterness from my soul."

For the author, seeing himself as a product of the society he was born into, being able to relate his own troubled past to his country’s turbulent history, with its still unresolved tensions, marked the turning point in his life. Like all social problems, the issue of homelessness first has to be addressed on an individual and personal level. The story does not end there however.

The Day the Poppy Met the Shamrock by Dezi Jay M.

Non-fiction, memoir, autobiography, homlessness and addiction, WWI commemoration

36 pages, colour illustrations.

First published in 2014 on CreateSpace. Published with the assistance of The Manuscript Publisher.

ISBN: 978-1496103970

The Day the Poppy met the Shamrock

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