Belfast, 1972: Thirty-eight year-old Jean McConnville is abducted from her home as her children watch on in horror. For years, the crime haunts her community. In Say Nothing, award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe reveals McConnville’s fate, interweaving her story with a larger account of the Troubles, the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland. The harrowing book captures not just the facts of the protracted war but also how it bred a climate of fear, secrecy, and silence. Join Keefe and journalist Alex Kotlowitz as they discuss the powerful, long-lasting effects such an atmosphere can have on both the individual and the society.

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This program is presented in partnership with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.