When Patrick Radden Keefe was touring his book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, earlier this year, he criss-crossed the island of Ireland. And his was a cookbook … nothing sticks to him.”Keefe’s book Say Nothing is the attempt to solve one of the best-known mysteries in the Northern Ireland Troubles: who killed Jean McConville? ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWIt turned into much more — a book that navigated through the history of Northern Ireland from the late 60s to the present day. Once, in the early 2000s I was at a press conference in Northern Ireland when Al Hutchinson, a new chief of staff for the Oversight Commission on Decommissioning, was being announced. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWPeople spoke with him — he interviewed more than 100 people and visited Northern Ireland seven times in four years.

Source: thestar June 01, 2019 16:01 UTC