Date : 2020
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 0-307-27928-6
ISBN : 978-0-307-27928-6
EAN : 9780307279286
Assassinat -- Irlande du Nord (GB) -- (Conflit d'Irlande du Nord)
Irlande du Nord (GB) -- (Conflit d'Irlande du Nord)
Classification Dewey : 364.152/309416
Résumé / Abstract : 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. Everyone in the neighborhooh knew the IRA was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the Jean 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. From radical and impetuous IRA terrorists such as Dolours Price, who was planting bombs and targeting informers when she was barely out of her teens, 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 IRA past