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True Crime Book Club

"Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe

2023-02-20 13:00:00 2023-02-20 14:30:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Club We will meet on the third Monday of the month. This will be a great way to discover new and classic True Crime writing. Westlake Porter Public Library - Dover Room

Monday, February 20
1:00pm - 2:30pm

Add to Calendar 2023-02-20 13:00:00 2023-02-20 14:30:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Club We will meet on the third Monday of the month. This will be a great way to discover new and classic True Crime writing. Westlake Porter Public Library - Dover Room

We will meet on the third Monday of the month. This will be a great way to discover new and classic True Crime writing.

This month we will discuss Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. We will meet on Monday, February 20, 2023 at 1:00 pm.

This description comes from Amazon.com:

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 I.R.A. 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 dress--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 I.R.A. 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 I.R.A. 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 I.R.A. 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 I.R.A. past—Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.


View and print the list of books and check out WPPL's Book Discussion page for more book and movie clubs!

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books and Authors |

TAGS: | True Crime | book discussion | book club |

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Westlake Porter Public Library is an independent public library serving the residents of the city of Westlake, western Cuyahoga County and eastern Lorain County. The library is located at 27333 Center Ridge Road in Westlake, Ohio. Anyone who lives, works, owns property, or goes to school in Ohio can register for a free library card.

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