Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe)

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

A dark true story set in the Irish Troubles of the 70s and 80s. The basis is the story of a single mother of ten who was abducted by the IRA and her children's subsequent appalling lives intertwined with the story of a republican woman who bombed London, abducted informers people in Belfast and spent a long time in prison where she was force fed whilst on hunger strike. There is a lot of other descriptions of people involved in the conflict including the political climate. I won't go into the detail but it is very worthwhile reading. Frightening. And not over. On the day I finished the book the Sinn Féin deputy leader in Belfast (Michelle O'Neill) put a wreath on the cenotaph on Remembrance Day... unsurprisingly many Irish republicans were appalled as this was celebrating British soldiers who carried out their own atrocities and torture of republicans and Catholics... a banner was put on the Sinn Féin Belfast office with Traitors written in dripping blood red letters. Not over by a long chalk.