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

Book review for Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. I rated it 5 stars I’ll admit I had heard only vaguely of “The Troubles” of Ireland and that there was some car-bombing involved by the IRA. So this book served as a nice overview of that period (albeit a little slow to get through - it took me two weeks). As a little bit of a primer, and for my own notes since I always find the UK to be a bit hard to wrap my head around (what is a country, what is the UK?): Ireland was originally a Kingdom (i.e. territory of) England. Technically since England was Anglican, Ireland’s official religion was Anglicanism as well. But the majority of its people were practicing Catholics. In the 17th century, the Protestant British colonised the northern bit of Ireland Eventually the United Kingdom was formed, including the whole of Ireland In 1919 - 1921 the Irish War of Independence was fought by the Irish Republican Army, or IRA. The northern bit…