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Say Nothing

Patrick Radden Keefe

Start date: December 24, 2019

Finish date: December 30, 2019

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Jan 08, 2020 Ryan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed, audiobooks, z2019-published, 2020

I wonder if we’ll ever hear the whole story
I wonder if this is the closest we’ll ever get

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Dec 10, 2020 Martin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020books

Really fascinating read; I got a little exhausted halfway through the detailed history and description of The Troubles, but I understood why it was necessary by the end. The ending section -- the (essentially) present day discussion of recriminations, reconciliation, memory, legal ramifications, etc was the most compelling to me. Pretty incredible -- and incredibly intricate and detailed -- story overall...

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Jan 12, 2021 Sarah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, audiobooks, radical-nonfiction, american-nonfiction, euro-nonfiction, ireland, uk

This book was incredible. I was absolutely captivated from its first paragraph. It looks at the Troubles from a micro-microhistory viewpoint: the story centers around the murder of Jean McConville in Belfast in 1972, but in so doing, examines many facets of the Troubles and the relationships among some of the IRA's most prominent members at the time. It also delves into the controversy surrounding Boston College's The Belfast Project, which catalogued many exclusive interviews with former IRA me ...more

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Jan 08, 2021 Suzanne Hamilton rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I listened to this narrative history of The Troubles of Northern Ireland; the reader was excellent, a quiet, yet compelling voice. The book focuses on the actions of a small group of Provos, the incarnation of the IRA that arose in the early 1970s, especially the murder of a young widow who left behind 10 children. Having read a little about Irish history, both fiction and nonfiction, and because I follow the news with interest, many names and events were familiar to me. But this book casts a st ...more

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