Diaspora child -- Loinnir -- Burying the rat -- Provo spice -- The severed Red Hand -- The dead of night -- A knock at the door -- Loneliness without peace -- Dirty Ardoyne -- The man who saw everything -- A lock of Henry Joy's hair -- Mo Chroi-se Dubh -- The reluctant hunger striker -- Baile Atha Cliath -- Whatever you say, say nothing -- The dead volunteer -- Of skeletons and closets -- Hector and his plastic fork -- A visit to Lond Kesh and a funeral -- Gran, Uncle Gerry and the Titanic -- The one handed provo -- A Christmas card for Thomas -- Oglach Eachtar -- Liam Averill's undies -- Sunday dinner and a wee riot -- Body count -- Orange blood -- Drawing breath -- Cuimhe (memory) -- Slan Abhaile -- Epilogue: The hand of history
Summary
Who killed our Jean? Jean Smyth, aged 24, was killed in June 1972 early in Northern Ireland's Troubles. After 25 years, as the Peace Process stalled in 1998, the author went to Belfast to find out who shot his aunt. Powerful & passionate, this book stands as both a testament to the tragedy that conflict wrecks on communities and as a savage indictment that such a conflict was waged at all. -- Publisher description
