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. 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.įrom 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.
violence, a war whose consequences have never been taken into account. 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. 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. In 2003, five years after an accord brought peace of mind to Northern Ireland, a human skeleton was discovered on a beach. But in an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, no one would talk about it. Everyone in the neighborhood knows the IRA is responsible. Her abduction was one of the most infamous episodes of the brutal conflict known as The Troubles. 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.
Say Nothing is a beautiful book by author Patrick Radden Keefe.įrom 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.
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