!bookworms, I'm making a new nomination thread, this time only one nomination per user. Then a voting thread tomorrow.
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
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I'll confess I got halfway through this before I put it down because it was goddarn depressing. It's really good though. Been meaning to pick it up again now I'm in a better mood.
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I've realized there's just so many modern historical events that I know very little about. My knowledge of The Troubles is really superficial, but it basically one of the only sectarian terrorist struggles in modern history that didn't end with one side completely destroying the other.
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That is a history I actually have studied a decent bit. It's a bloody and depressing tale of tit-for-tat lacking heroes, tbh. Everyone is a peepee; very hard to root for anyone involved by the end.
I'd start off reading a brief overview from the plantation era onward to get a sense of the background history before diving into the troubles directly, tbh. Help you keep things straight. There's a lot of books on the topic the choose from, and they'll all have a bias, but look for one that tries to be more ‘just the facts' and you'll do alright.
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Oh I'm more familiar with the time up to Ireland winning Independence. Just not much after De Valera.
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