“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.” WarViolenceIrelandNorthern IrelandIraThe Troubles Book:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Source: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
“The body is a fantastic machine,’ Hughes told Mackers in one of his Boston College interviews, recounting the grueling sequence of a hunger strike. ‘It’ll eat off all the fat tissue first, then it starts eating away at the muscle, to keep your brain alive.’ Long after Hughes and Price called an end to their strikes and attempted to reintegrate into society, the nursed old grudges and endlessly replayed their worst wartime abominations. In a sense, they never stopped devouring themselves.” WarIrelandNorthern IrelandIraThe Troubles Book:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Source: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland