Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Orwell Prize for Political Writing | 2019 | Winner |
About This Book
A masterwork of narrative nonfiction about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, centred on the murder of Jean McConville—a widowed mother of ten abducted from her Belfast home by the IRA in 1972 and secretly buried. Through the lives of Dolours Price, Gerry Adams, and others, Patrick Radden Keefe excavates the moral complexity, the violence, and the long reckoning with a conflict that defined a generation.
About the Author
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American author and staff writer at The New Yorker, widely considered one of the foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction in the United States. His books combine deep investigative journalism with novelistic storytelling, typically focusing on crime, conflict, and the dark corners of American institutions. His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, among many other honors. Read more →
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