Say Nothing

A riveting new TV series about the Irish Troubles delves into the abduction of a young widow by the Provisional IRA. In 2014, I interviewed that woman's daughter.

Nov 18, 2024

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If you’re watching Say Nothing on Disney+ or if you’ve read the brilliant Patrick Radden Keefe book on which it was based, you’ll know that both open with the the abduction of the widow Jean McConville by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, just before Christmas 1972.

Ten short years after those brutal events, I moved to Derry with my family, aged four.

Say Nothing

A riveting new TV series about the Irish Troubles delves into the abduction of a young widow by the Provisional IRA. In 2014, I interviewed that woman's daughter.

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