The moment they took her away, no one saw her then. The kids recognized some of the group as their neighbors. The intruders burst into her home and told her she was coming with them. Her husband had recently died of lung cancer, leaving her to raise her ten children alone with little money in a small, deteriorating home.īut things got much worse when a knock came that night. She had given birth to 14 children and lost four of them. If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: At the height of the Northern Ireland Conflict, Jean McConville mysteriously disappeared.ģ8-year-old Jean McConville had a tough life, to begin with.

The IRA murdered Jean McConville and left her in an unmarked grave where her body remained for 31 years.

Gerry Adams, Dolours Price, and Marian Price were central players in the Irish Republican Army.

Jean McConville was a 38-year-old mother to 14 children who suspiciously disappeared at the height of the Northern Ireland Conflict.

Here’s the book summarized in just 3 lessons: Keefe’s story guides us through what actually happened to Jean and how she fits into the tragic conflict that would claim the lives of thousands more. We learn that Jean’s mystery is the center of a web of tragic stories that make up what is known as the Troubles, a bloody conflict between Protestants and Catholics. It was an execution that was part of a vicious conflict in Northern Ireland. Her disappearance wasn’t any ordinary kidnapping. In the book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Keefe shares the untold true story behind Jean. Jean’s children would spend the next three decades trying to sort out what happened to their mother. It was the last time they ever saw her alive. Her screaming children attempted to cling to her as they force her out and into the van. Soon after, a group of masked men and women burst into her home and grabbed Jean while her ten children watched. On December 7, 1972, a Belfast woman named Jean McConville heard a knock at her front door. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*:

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe