The Troubles


Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
Killing Rage
Milkman
Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles
Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
Trespasses
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)
Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland
Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace
Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul
Bog Child
Colum McCann
The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead husbands. The ones who still laundered their gone son's bed sheets by hand. The ones who kept an extra teacup at the end of the table, in case of miracles. The elegant ones, the angry ones, the clever ones, the ones in hairnets, the ones exhausted by all the dying. They carried their sorrow - not with photos under their arms, or with public wailing, or b ...more
Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

Patrick Radden Keefe
Dating back to the Iliad, ancient Egypt and beyond, burial rites have formed a critical function in most human societies. Whether we cremate a loved one or inter her bones, humans possess a deep-set instinct to mark death in some deliberate, ceremonial fashion. Perhaps the cruelest feature of forced disappearance as an instrument of war is that it denies the bereaved any such closure, relegating them to a permanent limbo of uncertainty.
Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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