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Part I (Chapters 1 - 7)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Keefe, Patrick Radden. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Doubleday, New York, 2019.

• The book is written from the third-person perspective and in the past-tense.

• In The Prologue, titled The Treasure Room, Keefe recounts how two detectives from the Northern Ireland Police Service walked into Boston College in 2013 and collected secret material from former IRA members as part of their investigation into a murder. Keefe does not specify which murder.

• In Chapter 1, titled An Abduction, Jean McConville was 38 when she disappeared, and she had ten children.

• It was Belfast 1972. Her husband Arthur had just died and money was always sparse.

• The family had just moved into a complex called Divis flats.

• One December night in 1972, Jean was just getting out of the bath, one of her...

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