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

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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After reading this book it is difficult to say anything good about the IRA. Their methods were just so brutal and arbitrary. They used a napalm like bomb to blow up a restaurant in 1978. Never get on the bad side of the IRA. The people they were most brutal to were former members who had had enough and just wanted to get out. If you were suspected of being an informant you were shot in the back of the end and buried in the countryside. They are still looking for bodies till this day.

Gerry Adams is a terrorist who should be in prison instead he is seen as some Irish wise man. The guy is a psychopath who urged others to kill and starve themselves while he never missed a meal.

The Brits have a lot to answer for but this conflict should have been peacefully negotiated in the 1970s - it was eventually in the 1990s with the Good Friday Agreement. The one fault with the book is that it doesn't deal with the Ulster paramilitary groups. Ian Paisley and his bunch were just as bad as the IRA.

A good book which looks at the ongoing trauma of a unnecessary conflict.

https://www.amazon.ca/Say-Nothing-Murder-Northern-Ireland-ebook/dp/B07CWGBK5K/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71750) 4 years ago

I will have to read this
Sounds very sad and interesting

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

i just put a hold on this at our library. there's about 20 people ahead of me, but they have a lot of copies in stock so i should get it fairly quickly.

that whole business in northern ireland is something i certainly recall being constantly in the news in my younger years through to my early 20s, but i have to admit i never quite put together exactly what it was that people were fighting over. certainly i know it was protestants and catholics, that there were bombings & hunger strikes & all manner of ugliness, but my knowledge goes no deeper than that.

so thank you for the heads up on this book. hopefully it will fill in one of the many, many gaps in my understanding of the world.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

a great read

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

i picked this up friday and am about 80 pages into it, and am finding it incredibly gripping - and thankfully, not at all confusing to someone like myself who comes to this topic with almost no prior knowledge of northern ireland.

thanks again for the recommendation.

btw, i realized shortly after reading your post that i had heard of this book before. the author was interviewed on 'the fifth column,' a great podcast i follow closely. if you're interested, you can hear patrick radden keefe interviewed by michael moynihan at the link below.

http://wethefifth.com/episodes/2019/7/14/-146-w-patrick-radden-keefe-northern-irelands-troubles-and-a-notorious

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

No fiction writer could come up with better characters than the Price sisters.