Read History w/ Tori: "Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder & Memory in Northern Ireland"
Schedule
Fri Apr 24 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
717 Main St, Lancaster, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01523 | Lancaster, MA
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Join our Special Collections Librarian for a book group all about history! No registration required.Meeting the last Friday of the month, this group discusses books that examine our nation's early history and beyond.
April's book is "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe, available to pick up at our Circulation Desk.
"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."
We meet in the Trustees Room on TML's lower level; ample parking available behind the library. No registration required.
Questions? Contact Special Collections Librarian Victoria Hatchell at [email protected].
https://thayermemoriallibrary.org/special-collections-programs/
https://thayermemoriallibrary.org/programs/
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