Conflicting identities: Belfast torn apart

Abstract

No digas nada (Spanish Edition)

Patrick Radden Keefe

Reservoir Books, Madrid, 2020

Patrick Radden Keefe is an American journalist of Irish ancestry who worked on this story based on a visit to documentary repositories in Boston, from which he reconstructs a sort of memoir of the 30 years of the Northern Ireland conflict - often referred to in local journalistic jargon as the troubles - as well as chronicling the process that led to the Good Friday armistice of 1998, which decreed the end of hostilities and the beginning of Sinn Fein activity. It is also a chronicle of the political party built by Gerry Adams as a definitive replacement for the IRA army (to which Adams always denied his membership, which this book attempts to disprove), as well as an account not only of the difficult years, but also of the persistence to date of an unresolved conflict that would only be resolved with the annexation of Ulster (a territory of Northern Ireland still part of the United Kingdom) to the Republic of Ireland.