Beschreibung
The story of Jean McConville’s 1972 abduction from her Belfast home, never to be seen alive again, revealing the culture of silence and postponed guilt surrounding political problems in Northern Ireland and associated violence. McConville’s story is woven with that of first female IRA front-liner Dolours Price.
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Snakehead and Chatter. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship at the New America Foundation. A former Marshall scholar, he holds Master’s degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Yale. He lives in New York