A new Disney series, 'Say Nothing,' delves into the dark history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, focusing on the IRA and their infamous practice of 'The Disappeared.'
The smash hit Disney series Say Nothing is one of the best programmes I've seen so far on the Troubles . It tells the story of the devout IRA members, the Price sisters, their roles in the Provos campaign of terror and their involvement with the Disappeared. One of them, Dolours , who was married to the actor Stephen Rae is dead while the other Marian is still alive.
In case you didn't know, the Disappeared are a group of 17 people who vanished off the face of the earth during the conflict in the north and many were missing for almost 50 years. They were each individually abducted, tortured and executed by the IRA and buried in anonymous graves on waste ground, bogs and beaches in the Republic. Most of them were accused of being informers while others simply breached IRA rules. The most famous of them you would have heard of it Belfast mother of ten, Jean McConville. The 37 year old was taken from her family by a gang of Provos and brought to a beach outside Dundalk where she was shot dead. The IRA had accused her of passing information for food and money to the British Army, an accusation her family vehemently denied. They claimed she identified IRA members in the Divis flats where she lived to the Brits. Dolours Price admitted Jean was among a number of the disappeared who she drove to their deaths including her one time friend IRA partner Joe Lynskey. She denied killing any of them although the programme alleges her sister Marian killed Jean McConville which she has publicly denied saying she is suing Disney. Most of the Disappeared were killed in the period from 1972-75. For years their families had no idea what happened to them, where they were buried or how they die
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