Just finished the Say Nothing tv series.
The women' who portrayed the Price sisters (both younger and older versions) were amazing.
Also, Gerry Adam's is a sociopathic twat.
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This one is good to say nothing
Halfway through. Loved the book.
Changed my opinion of Adams.
I do not rule out that Adams himself was an informant.
The Price sisters were tough. Delours married Stephen Rae. She recently passed.
I was in Belfast in March 1988, on the Falls Road the day after the cemetery bombing and the day prior to the Corporals killing, which I watched live from a Galway B&B. The cruelty and savagery of the corporals’ murders forever changed my view of the IRA. They were far too undisciplined and unnecessarily violent.
The book was great. My epiphany on the Provos came when they blew up that British Army band.
That was horrible. On the other hand, His Majesty’s Government was equally, and in fact more brutal throughout the Troubles.
For all of their faults which were many, McGuiness, Adams, Trimble, Paisley, and the Brits at least got the Good Friday Accord done which has been a huge positive for NI.
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The British brought it upon themselves. Their cruelty has always been apparent.
McGuinnes, imo, was the hero for the Irish.
The IRA were outsmarted throughout The Troubles by the British, playing into the British narrative, often through unforced errors and poor messaging.
I finished the series at 1:00 AM.
Tough to watch at times. The emotional damage suffered by the McConville kids is heart wrenching.
Delours’ and Brendan’s journeys in combating their codes of silence to find some peace was compelling, and the story of the series.
Ireland has always been Britain’s blind spot. In many ways I am an Anglophile, but can never forgive
what they did to the Irish. My family’s roots all being in Belfast I guess has something to do with it.
I've visited relatives in Tyrone and County Down many times, both before an after the GFA and I
can't recall a time when they went on about the Troubles...basically they 'Said Nothing'...not that they didn't recount their environment involving helicopters flying overhead day and night, or armed soldiers stopping anyone/anytime they wanted...but it wasn't an emotional conversation...and I didn't probe them for deeper insights or experiences.. now they are comfortable in being able to go where and when they want, and do as they please, while looking forward. One of my cousins has built a very successful engineering business and his kids are very upbeat about their futures.
As a sidelight, my MIL of Irish descent and a fantastic woman, would not set foot on English soil...not even to save money on a cheaper airfare that involved a stop at Heathrow before getting to Dublin...could be due to her recollections of growing up in Kansas and being called a "Catlicker" by local Protestant kids...gave her an appreciation for what Northern Irish kids had to endure.
As the book shows the Provos ruled by fear much as the Brits and the Orangemen did. Saying nothing
was usually the safest choice. Although I will admit at Celtic football games, I did join in the up the RA chants from time to time.
You were supposed to say nothing.
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