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Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe

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  • "From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother 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 Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the IRA was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five 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 it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the garments--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children but also IRA members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war but simple murders. From radical and impetuous IRA 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 IRA 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 IRA past--[this book] conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish."--Dust jacket
  • December 1972. Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders. Her children never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as the Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the IRA was responsible, but no one would speak of it. In 2003, human bones was discovered on a beach-- McConville. Keefe uses the case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war that created a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish-- and whose consequences have never been reckoned with. -- adapted from jacket
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 441 pages
Note
Subtitle taken from book jacket
Contents
  • Prologue: The treasure room
  • I. The clear, clean, sheer thing :
  • An abduction
  • Albert's daughters
  • Evacuation
  • An underground army
  • St. Jude's walk
  • The dirty dozen
  • The little brigadier
  • The cracked cup
  • Orphans
  • The Freds
  • II. Human sacrifice :
  • Close England!
  • The Belfast Ten
  • The toy salesman
  • The ultimate weapon
  • Captives
  • A clockwork doll
  • Field day
  • The bloody envelope
  • Blue ribbons
  • III. A reckoning :
  • A secret archive
  • On the ledge
  • Touts
  • Bog queen --An Entanglement of lies
  • The last gun
  • The mystery radio
  • The Boston tapes
  • Death by misadventure
  • This is the past
  • The unknown
Isbn
9780385521314
Instance
Label
Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
Title
Say nothing
Title remainder
a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
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Patrick Radden Keefe
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother 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 Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the IRA was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five 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 it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the garments--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children but also IRA members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war but simple murders. From radical and impetuous IRA 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 IRA 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 IRA past--[this book] conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish."--Dust jacket
  • December 1972. Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders. Her children never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as the Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the IRA was responsible, but no one would speak of it. In 2003, human bones was discovered on a beach-- McConville. Keefe uses the case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war that created a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish-- and whose consequences have never been reckoned with. -- adapted from jacket
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Writing style
Award
  • ALA Notable Book, 2020.
  • Library Journal Best Books, 2019.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2019.
  • Orwell Prize, 2019.
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction, 2019
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10755120
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1976-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Dewey number
364.152/3092
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HV6574.G7
LC item number
K44 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Irish Republican Army
  • McConville, Jean
  • McConville, Jean
  • Irish Republican Army
  • Abduction
  • Murder
  • Northern Ireland
  • TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
  • HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
  • Abduction
  • Murder
  • Northern Ireland
Target audience
adult
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
Label
Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
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Publication
Note
Subtitle taken from book jacket
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-427) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: The treasure room -- I. The clear, clean, sheer thing : -- An abduction -- Albert's daughters -- Evacuation -- An underground army -- St. Jude's walk -- The dirty dozen -- The little brigadier -- The cracked cup -- Orphans -- The Freds -- II. Human sacrifice : -- Close England! -- The Belfast Ten -- The toy salesman -- The ultimate weapon -- Captives -- A clockwork doll -- Field day -- The bloody envelope -- Blue ribbons -- III. A reckoning : -- A secret archive -- On the ledge -- Touts -- Bog queen --An Entanglement of lies -- The last gun -- The mystery radio -- The Boston tapes -- Death by misadventure -- This is the past -- The unknown
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 441 pages
Isbn
9780385521314
Lccn
2018031745
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1035436434
Label
Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
Publication
Note
Subtitle taken from book jacket
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-427) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: The treasure room -- I. The clear, clean, sheer thing : -- An abduction -- Albert's daughters -- Evacuation -- An underground army -- St. Jude's walk -- The dirty dozen -- The little brigadier -- The cracked cup -- Orphans -- The Freds -- II. Human sacrifice : -- Close England! -- The Belfast Ten -- The toy salesman -- The ultimate weapon -- Captives -- A clockwork doll -- Field day -- The bloody envelope -- Blue ribbons -- III. A reckoning : -- A secret archive -- On the ledge -- Touts -- Bog queen --An Entanglement of lies -- The last gun -- The mystery radio -- The Boston tapes -- Death by misadventure -- This is the past -- The unknown
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xii, 441 pages
Isbn
9780385521314
Lccn
2018031745
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1035436434

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