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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
125 reviews
mollylovesbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Violence, Murder, and War
Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Drug abuse
kbratty's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence and Murder
katrinaburch's review against another edition
4.5
I did have to knock it down a star for the author not using footnotes and ONLY using endnotes. As a historian, this drives me nuts. Endnotes are for your sources, footnotes are for extra information!
Overall, it's a very good book and should be read.
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gaslighting, and Classism
Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Excrement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
kys831's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, and War
ellayeeles's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder
emmapaigereads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Gun violence and Violence
sporadic_user's review against another edition
4.0
For those normally turned off by acciuntings of history, Keefes writing style will be a welcome, gripping narrative rendition of events.
In particular, the inner motivations of the depicted are so well articulated that it can become hard hold on to an objective view oneself. Much like these real people, you can get caught up in their personal views and their cycles of violence. You can get insight into how the peace process could be reviled by the very people who wanted to stop fighting themselves. You might even find yourself condemning the very people who ended the conflict, only to realize that this exact thinking is what kept the conflict alive.
This book can be hard to read because of its subject matter, but it thoroughly demystifies the origins, staying power and legacy of the troubles.
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism
Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt
chomiczeq's review against another edition
5.0
For me, the last part of the book, devoted to the issue of settling with the past and remembering these events, was particularly interesting. How key activists – Brendan Hughes, Dolours and Marian Price, Gerry Adams and others – referred to their actions after many years – or how they denied them, how they were affected by the crimes they committed, the hunger strikes they went on, their participation in planning attacks or kidnappings. Also how the families of victims, such as the aforementioned McConville children, dealt with the past. The author based his work on interviews, archives and recordings of interviews with participants in the conflict, and collaborated with researchers and journalists. The result is a reliable, nuanced and multidimensional work.
Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, and War
lizzi_thebooksquid's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Violence and War
Minor: Torture
sunflower_13's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Rape, and Suicide