This month we will discuss \;Say N othing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patr ick Radden Keefe. We will meet on Monday\, February 20\, 2023 at 1:00 pm.< /p>\n
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\nIn December 1972\, Jean McConville\, a thirty-eight-year-old mo ther of ten\, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders\, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The T roubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia\, no one would speak of it. In 2003\, f ive years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland\, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew i t was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to t he dress--with so many kids\, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.
\nPatrick Radden Keefe' s mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its afte rmath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a socie ty wracked by a violent guerrilla war\, a war whose consequences have neve r been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children\, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that f ell far short of the goal of a united Ireland\, and left them wondering wh ether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war\, but sim ple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price\, who\, when she was barely out of her teens\, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution\, to the ferocious I .R.A. mastermind known as The Dark\, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army\, to Gerry Adams\, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past&mdash\;Say Nothing \;conjures a world of passion\, betrayal\, vengeance\, and anguish .
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