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

I went in thinking I’d get spun some yarns about Bobby Sands and maybe just organize my preconceived timeline better, but before I knew it I’d started reading a book about preserving memory after collective trauma, reckoning that reduces harm, and a tenuous road to healing and reflection. The initiative from BC to hold and honor these stories is maybe the only good thing a catholic institution has done in. Ever

“Niall should petrol bomb you” — twitter user @nicolemcguill in a reply to Harry Styles, April 8, 2013. Early influential political text for me .

Tfw you’re an English official and you start to tweak when you realize the women you’re letting starve to death would be martyrs and every Irish person would hate you so bad you “fear even going to Boston, Chicago, or New York”. “They’re everywhere.”