Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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From award winning New Yorkerstaff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussionsIn December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty eight year old mother of ten, 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 notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A 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 dress with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.Patrick Radden Keefe s mesmerizing 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 I.R.A 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 From radical and impetuous I.R.A terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution to the ferocious I.R.A mastermind known as The Dark to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A past, Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish. Best Read [ Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland ] author [ Patrick Radden Keefe ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Harrowing I ve always wanted a book that could describe simply and clearly what happened in Ireland during The Troubles Not being Irish, I ve too often felt the pall of incomprehensibility daunting me I never found the right book, until now Say Nothing is indeed that longed for book The prose is just perfectly freighted, and the reader is hoovered into the narrative maelstrom from the very first page with the mad scene of Jean McConville being torn from the arms of her huge and loving famil Harrowing I ve always wanted a book that could describe simply and clearly what happened in Ireland during The Troubles Not being Irish, I ve too often felt the pall of incomprehensibility dau...Breathtakingly haunting and good.Patrick Radden Keefe tells the story of the conflict in Northern Ireland between the Irish nationalists, the Catholics, and the unionists, the Protestants, in a time described as The Troubles.This book is very well researched, it is harrowing and it focuses largely on the human cost I believed myself to be relatively well informed on this topic before I read this book I wasn t.I cannot recommend enough Thank you to Doubleday, Patrick Radden Keefe and Netgalley Breathtakingly haunting and good.Patrick Radden Keefe tells the story of the conflict in Northern Ireland between the Irish nationalists, the Catholics, and the unionists, the Protestants, in a time described as The Troubles.This book is very well researched, it is harrowing and it focuses largely on the human cost I believed myself to be relatively well informed on this topic before I read this book I wasn t.I cannot recom...I wish it weren t only February because the statement this is the best book I ve read all year does not carry very much weight when we still have 10 months to go But, nonetheless, this is my reigning book of 2019 And it ended up being one of those rare cases when the book turned out so differently from what I expected, but I ended up liking it all thefor that From the blurb I got the impression that this was going to focus on the disappearance of a woman called Jean McConville, with d I wish it weren t only February because the statement this is the best book I ve read all year does not carry very much weight when we still have 10 months to go But, nonetheless, this is my reigning book of 2019 And it ended up being one of those rare cases when the book turned out so differently from what I expected, but I ended up liking it all thefor that From the blurb I got the impression that this was going to focus on the disappearance of a woman called Jean McConville, with details about the Troubles setting the background context, but instead it s primarily a narrative account of the Troubles which occasionally, haltingly zeroes in on McConville s story So it s less true crime than it is historical nonfiction, but the final product is focused and compelling.Say Nothing, whose title comes from a line from a Seamus Heaney poem which examines the treacherous precedent of speaking plainly about the Troubles, paints a comprehensive picture of twentieth century Belfa...Very impressive, Radden Keefe Very impressive indeed Say Nothing A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland is an intricate and moving piece of narrative nonfiction concerning The Troubles in the North of Ireland, particularly centered in Belfast, beginning in 1969 through the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.Bookending Radden Keefe s extraordinary compilation of these events is the story of a mother of ten, Jean McConville, who was forcibly taken from her home in late 1972, becoming o Very impressive, Radden Keefe Very impressive indeed Say Nothing A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland is an intricate and moving piece of narrative nonfiction concerning The Troubles in the North of Ireland, particularly centered in Belfast, beginning in 1969 through the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.Bookending Radden Keefe s extraordinary compilation of these events is the story of a mother of ten, Jean McConville, who was forcibly taken from her home in late 1972, becoming one of the disappeared during this bitter conflict McConville had been accused of being a pa...A pair of dispassionate IRA gunmen were sent from Belfast Before the killing, they summoned a priest This was not unusual there were certain priests in that era who grew accustomed to the late night phone call They would be summoned outside by gruff men who were about to perform an execution and asked to deliver the last rites The act of killing itself had a ritual character, a practiced choreography A bag is placed over your head Your hands are bound behind your back You kneel in th A pair of dispassionate IRA gunmen were sent from Belfast Before the killing, they summoned a priest This was not unusual there were certain priests in that era who grew accustomed to the late night phone call They would be summoned outside by gruff men who were about to perform an execution and asked to deliver the last rites The act of killing itself had a ritual character, a practiced choreography A bag is placed over your head Your hands ar...Everything you have heard or read about this book is trueSay Nothingis THE nonfiction book of 2019 My review specifically will focus on my experience with the Audiobook In Belfast, history is alive and dangerous What compels an American journalist living in the United States to bring forth to readers t...After reading a history rich fictional pentalogy about the Irish struggles, I could not help but turn to Patrick Radden Keefe s book Keefe takes the reader into the heart of the Anglo Irish conflict, particularly as it developed in Northern Ireland or the North of Ireland, depending on which side you support Keefe explores how the simmering tensions of the Irish Republican Army IRA against the British Army and Ulster Protestant majority in the six remaining counties turned out to be some After reading a history rich fictional...I ve always been under informed about the situation in Ireland and reading Say Nothing was a great way to cure that problem It gives great history on the long standing feud between the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, and the problem with England getting involved in Ireland s affairs for hundreds of years It shares the story of the widowed 38 year old mum of 10, Jean McConville, who is taken from her apartment one December night in 1972 by a threatening masked group, IRA, but unsaid and I ve always been under informed about the situation in Ireland and reading Say Nothing was a great way to cure that problem It gives great history on the long standing feud between the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, and the problem with England getting involved in Ireland s affairs for hundreds of years It sh...Must it be the case that who one perceives a tragedy will forever depend on where one sits The anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss once observed that, for a majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village When it came to the Troubles, a phenomenon known as whatabout Must it be the case that who one perceives a tragedy will forever depend on where one sits The anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss once observed that, for a majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village When it cam...It took me a long time to get through this audiobook, but it was definitely worth it I grew up in Canada hearing about the troubles in Northern Ireland, but I only had the vaguest idea of Irish history Last summer, I was in the Republic of Ireland and really appreciated the vivid introduction to Irish history and culture...

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  • English
  • 22 July 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 441 pages
  • 0385521316
  • Patrick Radden Keefe
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland