The Troubles, a Disappearance and Silent Reckonings
Patrick Radden Keefe unravels the abduction of Jean McConville to tell a gripping, human history of the Troubles - secrecy, loyalty and the long aftershocks of violence.
Online Price
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Collect 32 Reward Points
- Reduced delivery schedule until 5th Jan
The Troubles, a Disappearance and Silent Reckonings
Patrick Radden Keefe unravels the abduction of Jean McConville to tell a gripping, human history of the Troubles - secrecy, loyalty and the long aftershocks of violence.
- Book Synopsis
-
One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of the brutal crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.
Through the unsolved case of Jean McConville’s abduction, Patrick Radden Keefe tells the larger story of the Troubles, investigating Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA, who bombed the Old Bailey; Gerry Adams, the politician who helped end the fighting but denied his IRA past; and Brendan Hughes, an IRA commander who broke their code of silence.
A gripping story forensically reported, Say Nothing explores the extremes people will go to for an ideal, and the way societies mend – or don’t – after long and bloody conflict.
- About The Author
- Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Snakehead and Chatter. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship at the New America Foundation. A former Marshall scholar, he holds Master's degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Yale. He lives in New York
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9780008159269
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- William Collins, (22 August 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 511
- Weight
- 460 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 40 mm
- Categories: