Say Nothing is a beautiful book by author Patrick Radden Keefe.
From award-winning New York staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe comes a beautiful, intricate story about a notorious murder in Northern Ireland and its devastating consequences.

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a 38-year-old mother of 10, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most infamous episodes of the brutal conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knows the IRA is responsible. But in an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, no one would talk about it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought peace of mind to Northern Ireland, a human skeleton was discovered on a beach. McConville’s children knew it was their mother when they were told that a blue pin was attached to the dress – with a lot of kids, she always keeps the needle handy for diapers or torn clothes.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s enchanting audiobook about the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as the starting point for the story of a society ravaged by a guerrilla war. violence, a war whose consequences have never been taken into account. The brutal violence not only hurt people like the McConville children, but also IRA members who felt bitter about a peace that failed to achieve their goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the murders they committed were not just acts of war, but simply murder.

From radical and impulsive IRA terrorists like Dolors Price who, as a teenager, barely planted bombs in London and targeted informants for execution, to the known ferocious IRA mastermind with the name The Dark, to spy games and dirty conspiracies. of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated peace but betrayed his difficult comrades by denying his IRA past – Say Nothing evokes a world full of passion, betrayal , revenge and anguish.

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe is subtitled A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. It’s rare that I ignore my surroundings and completely immerse myself in a book, no matter how good or thrilling it is, but that’s exactly what happened with this book. Across the ocean, I didn’t really know much about life in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, which ran from 1968 to 1998, at a time when events were unfolding.

I first became aware of the deep divisions only after I began researching my ancestors, which led to Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. On my trips there, I visited Belfast and took bus tours that covered much of the Troubles and took me past the Peace Wall and artwork commemorating both sides. In fact, one of the last British soldiers killed had the same last name as my ancestor (Neely) who was killed in an IRA bombing outside Ballygawley.

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