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

by Patrick Radden Keefe

As if to underline the futility of nonviolent resistance, when Eamonn McCann and a huge mass of peaceful protesters assembled in Derry one chilly Sunday afternoon in January 1972, British paratroopers opened fire on the crowd, killing thirteen men and wounding fifteen others.

Bloody Sunday, as it would forever be known, was a galvanizing event for Irish republicanism.