“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
“Indeed, it could occasionally seem that support for the armed struggle was more fervent in Boston or Chicago than it was in Belfast or Derry. The romantic idyll of a revolutionary movement is easier to sustain when there is no danger that one's own family members might get blown to pieces on a trip to the grocery store. Some people in Ireland looked askance at the "plastic Paddies" who urged bloody war in Ulster from the safe distance of America.” WarPoliticsViolenceConflictIraThe 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