Format:
Book
Author:
Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- author.
Title:
Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Doubleday, [2019]
©2019
Description:
xii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as the Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the IRA was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the garments. Keefe's book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children but also IRA members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war but simple murders.
Subjects:
McConville, Jean.
Irish Republican Army.
Abduction -- Northern Ireland -- History.
Murder -- Northern Ireland -- History.
Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-427) and index.
LCCN:
2018031745
ISBN:
9780385521314 (hardcover)
0385521316 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1085514785
System Availability:
46
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3671911
Call Number:
364.152/3092
Course Reserves:
0
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44