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“Sunrise in the Irish Sea, dawn over Dublin Bay after a stormy night, one shivering star; and I picture the harsh waking everywhere, the devastations of a world at war, airfields, radio silence, a darkened convoy strung out in moonlight on a glittering sea.”

Wwii Dublin Elizabeth Bowen The Troubles

Book:The Yellow Book

Source: The Yellow Book

“There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb.”

War Northern Ireland Belfast The 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

“GERRY: [towards his newborn granddaughter] Y'don't even know your own name. And a bet you've no idea who I am? Y'don't know anything, do ya? You're startin' with a completely new sheet, eh? You're one big blank page, that's what you are. But you're the next page, our kid... you're the next page. GERRY smiles at his grandchild as the lights fade to Blackout.”

Northern Ireland The Troubles Northern Irish Theatre Good Friday Agreement

Book:The History of the Troubles

Source: The History of the Troubles

“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.”

War Violence Ireland Northern Ireland Ira The 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.”

War Ireland Northern Ireland Ira The 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.”

War Politics Violence Conflict Ira The 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

“His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would be) cut down.”

Northern Ireland Ira The Troubles Alec Reid

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