Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as The Snakehead and Chatter, two previous critically acclaimed works. He won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.
The McConville case serves as a beginning point for Patrick Radden Keefe's fascinating book on Northern Ireland's brutal conflict and its aftermath, which tells the story of a country torn apart by a violent guerrilla war whose ramifications have never been fully understood. The heinous violence enraged not just the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members who were enraged by a peace that fell far short of the aim of a united Ireland, and who wondered if the atrocities they performed were not justified acts of war, but mere murders.
Say Nothing's accomplishments include being named one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of the Year, Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, the Washington Post's Best 10 Books of the Year, and a New York Times best seller.
Some reviews about this book: “After 40 plus years of researching Irish history and collecting 3500 books on Ireland and the diaspora, this book ranks in the top ten, if not in the top five. If you care an iota about modern Irish history, this should be the first book you buy this year. It is spectacular.”; “This book fulfills the needs of many of us who have relied upon limited accounts in US news media to understand the decades of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland.”
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
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