gemma’s Reviews > Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland > Status Update

"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."

good god

the italian informant having the nickname "the wop" is crazy 😭

"i would hate for young people now to have this romatinticized version of the events of that time. the truth is so very far removed from that." ‼️‼️‼️‼️📢📢📢

constantly thinking about eric andre's "do you think margaret thatcher effectively utilized girl power by funnelling money into illegal paramilitary death squads in northern ireland?"

the fact that the hbo show removed the entire trial is crazy enough but removing when the old bailey bombers started humming a funeral march while their member turned traitor left the court room is fucking wild to me like this sounds like something out of a movie already and yet they fumbled it????

brendan hughes simultaneously being lucky enough to successfully break out of jail and unlucky enough to end up in loyalist territory with no ride is so on brand for the provos

IRA ballad "the patriot game" my beloved one of The ballads of all time

reread bc it's my fav nonfiction book of all time 💖💖💖💖

"Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."

forever heartbroken that the IRA failed to kill margaret thatcher 💔