Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe ePub Download

February 9, 2024 History

Download Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe ePub eBook free. “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” is a brilliantly well-told story of the troubles in Ireland, woven with a mysterious murder.

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“Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” is a very thoroughly researched book about the Troubles and in particular the death of Jean McConville. Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of this awesome and amazing book. From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. The author has written it in a way that keeps you interested right up to the end of the book. Keefe uses the story of Jean McConville, a mother of ten, to pull readers away from cold facts about the conflict and into the human impact on particular people. Filled with personal stories, betrayals, and violence, this book covers both the past and the present with skill and insight. With Jean McConville in our minds from the early part of the book, Keefe uses the bulk of the book to elaborate on the actions of leaders including Gerry Adams and Margaret Thatcher. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe details the decades-long bloody conflict, known as The Troubles, in Northern Ireland between all factions involved. Through the book, Keefe does an excellent job of bringing forward the history of the conflict in an understandable way for all readers. In his detailing of the violence, Keefe aptly provides the reader with enough explanation that shows this is not just a Catholic or Protestant conflict, or for that matter, a British or Irish conflict either (one very interesting aspect of The Troubles includes two sects of the Irish Republican Army were even at war with themselves).

The book opens with a fascinating telling of the serving of a subpoena on a university in Boston, Massachusetts over highly secret information locked away deep into the university’s archives. This information is an accounting of who did what and to whom during The Troubles. Keefe then takes the reader back to December 1972 where a mother of ten is abducted from her Belfast home by masked assailants, never to be seen again. Keefe knits his recounting of these events by historical research on each topical spoke of this conflict, blending in a wide variety of people until the spokes intersect in the middle. Say Nothing keeps the reader engaged and Keefe breathes life into the people involved with a story that never bores. This book reads like a broad, historical crime novel involving conspiracies, governments, a wide range of people and fascinating layers to the tale. This book is highly recommended to people who would like to develop a deeper understanding of The Troubles that is explained in a highly accessible manner. Detailed, humane, fluently written this is utterly gripping and a timely reminder of our recent past.