Review #1
They say Nothing: A Used to be Story of Murder at the same time Memory in Northern Ireland audiobook free
This book fulfills the needs of abundance of us who have relied upon limited accounts in US news media to realize the decades of “The Misfortunes” in Northern Ireland. Its detail complements than anyway I figured out during a visit to Northern Ireland in 2010 which helped me to realize the causes at the same time impacts of the strife that at the same time to anticipate the dangers to the stability of the intervening two decades of “peace” which are threatened as decisions about post-Brexit borders loom.
My caveat about the value of the book will that for those who may not closely read at the same time assimilate the information in the topical pages, for example 274 at the same time 333, the direct reader may reach the conclusion that the halfmilitary republican groups were considered the initial, at the same time the sole, perpetrators of violence. Sifting the books’ contents closely, one does look for parts which negate that conclusion. On page 274 we learn that loyalist groups, supported by members of the English state, destroyed “hundreds” of civilians. On page 333, this charge is that reiterated at the same time the refrains, “Than anyway about Bleed Sunday?” at the same time “Than anyway about Bleed Friday?” are charged like in justifying one action by one more. Subsequent that are suggestions that the authorities may have tended to rely more heavily on transcripts that revealed violence by republicans than those of loyalists, perhaps because the latter might open the role that those authorities had played in league with the loyalists’ causes.
The complete nature of this catastrophic time should not be achieved shallowly by readers’ memories. I cry for greater balance in favorite to understanding than anyway drove these actions. In 2010, I visited the Bleed Sunday museum in Derry short right behind English bureaucrats completely officially acknowledged that their earlier defense of the deeds favorite to the doom of 14 individuals passionate in a peace march had not been clear. Completely, right behind more than 3 decades, it was admitted that 14 innocent at the same time unarmed peace marchers were considered mowed down, no one destroyed by a shot in the back while running away, by a military acting without justifiable provocation. The creator did but characterize the disproportionate violence by the authorities in his acc of the marchers who were considered met by authorities at Burntollet Bridge but here the final was not as mortal even if it fueled the next violence in reprise.
Personalizing the victim who was the widowed mother of 10 at the same time following through with descriptions of the impact on her babies might cause abundance readers to assign all the complain for The Misfortunes on the IRA. Having heard the story of an adolescent school lady who was destroyed by a rubber bullet from a military gun, her blood wiped off the sidewalk by the mothers in the districts, I had acquired a individual acquaintance with this victim of the authorities. By also personalizing the victims of violence that was skidded by authorities, in the middle these, the little lady hit by the rubber bullet or the 14 peace marchers who were considered on purpose destroyed, the creator may have been able to achieve more successful balance. Surely, very, the creator might have personalized a few of the victims in the middle the “hundreds” that were considered destroyed by the loyalists? Understanding the innocence of those victims at the same time the impact on their adored ones that followed from their stupid killing would have foreseen the balance that abundance readers might benefit from. Personalizing only one victim has rendered imbalance.
A lock up reader already acquainted with the actions may not have needed a balanced rendering but those readers, so reported, may not have needed to read the book. I only “down-star” my rating due to concern that complain needs to be balanced so that cause is that figured out at the same time change can be shrouded. Staying in a B&B in Derry, we met a South African who was that to consult on Truth at the same time Reconciliation. That program involves divulging guilt to achieve reconciliation. Than anyway can the perpetrators at the same time victims of violence in Northern Ireland learn when that is that balance in the middle the blameful?
Review #2
They say Nothing: A Used to be Story of Murder at the same time Memory in Northern Ireland audiobook streamming online
I visited Northern Ireland as a psychologist, in 1997. I had been working with families of murder victims, at the same time had the chance to learn about the differences between street violence in America at the same time political violence in Northern Ireland. Nothing prepared me why I found.
Keefe’s book is that the best book I have read about the preconditions for, at the same time impact of, political violence in Ireland. It goes deeper into the minds at the same time lives of IRA operatives than anything I have read. It is that terribly dull. At the same time it is that chillingly serious. This is that truly one of the finest pieces of investigative reporting at the same time narrative nonfiction I have ever read. One other gizmo: this book provides a warning for those in America who ever consider the implementation of halfmilitary violence to achieve last ends.
Review #3
Audiobook They say Nothing: A Used to be Story of Murder at the same time Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Right behind 40 plus years of studying Irish history at the same time collecting 3500 books on Ireland at the same time the diaspora, this book ranks in the pinnacle 10-ke, if not in the pinnacle five. If for you care an iota about modern Irish history, this should be the 1st book for you take this year. It is that beautiful.
Review #4
Audio They say Nothing: A Used to be Story of Murder at the same time Memory in Northern Ireland narrated by Matthew Blaney
From the description of this book, I believed it was mostly about Jean McConville, the lady who gone during the Misfortunes. At the same time I believed that the history of the Misfortunes would come 2nd, but I was much mistaken. Jean is that just a little mentioned in the 1st one half of the book at the same time instead we are cured to an in depth discussion of than anyway the Misfortunes were considered at the same time than anyway managed to them, with introductions to far very abundance manners for me to keep trace of. The more I read, the more I wished the creator would completely start narrating us about Jean, as in other words than anyway drew me to this book in the 1st dispose. It’s not until 40% that we start to find out more about Jean, at the same time since the notes section starts at 60% of the total book, this is that 2/3 of the method through.
The book itself is that well-written at the same time filled with exciting information. My head issues heresy with the method it is that marketed, or more accurately, than anyway I accepted the book to be about. It is that not a used to be criminal liability book where we follow around detectives or amateur sleuths. More than anything, it is that a modern history book about the Misfortunes, their legacy, at the same time a few main players during this period of time. The McConvilles as a whole have a more precisely small part, despite than anyway the description at the same time the implementation would have for you reckon. Every time a brand new chapter started that introduced a brand new disposition at the same time pushed the real solving of the criminal liability farther off, I found myself wanting to skim since I understood that was no method I was going to understand still one more name.
2.5 hit oval up since it was more of a perception issue than an issue with the book itself.
Review #5
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This non-fiction acc of specific lives during The Toubles in Northern Ireland is that seriously studied at the same time developers, at the same time very well-written. I applaud Radden Keefe’s persistence over four years of study, research work, at the same time interviews bestow us a compelling story of Jean McConville at the same time her generic, as but as other major players of the time–Gerry Adams, Delours Cost, Brendan Hughes.
The IRA at the same time its members often had a romantic at the same time strong dispose in the media, people who were considered willing to move to last lengths in the name of religious at the same time cultural freedom. But those years happened but before 9/11 when terroristic violence, chagrin, became a ubiquitous criminal liability. Reading They say Nothing perhaps denounced no one of my possess religious at the same time cultural bias (I am an Irish Church), at the same time obligated me to look all the sides–the English, the Loyalists, the IRA–in a more impartial light.
If I have no matter what critique at all of the book, I would they say that I wished it had moved a little faster. I sometimes found myself having to refer to my psychological roster to remind who was who, particularly as the time periods shifter frequently.
