“I grew up in Boston…Dorchester, in a big Irish American family,” he explains in this interview. It has already spent time on the big best-seller lists, and Keefe spoke to Irish America this week about his globe-trotting new book, the afterlife of Say Nothing, and his family’s Donegal roots, on his father’s side. Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks by Doubleday Books.Ī Massachusetts native and New Yorker magazine staff writer, Keefe has a new book out, called Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks (Doubleday). In other words, Keefe’s portrait of The Troubles was one of the best, and most comprehensive, ever written. “Shifting smoothly among scenes with explosive, thriller-like pacing and deeply engrossing psychological profiles,” critic Walton Muyumba added, “Keefe takes us from the ambush at Burntollet Bridge in 1969 to Bloody Sunday in ‘72 to the 1973 bombing of the Old Bailey Courthouse in London to Dolours Price, Brendan Hughes, Bobby Sands, and the Hunger Strikes of ‘80-81 to Margaret Thatcher to the political legitimization of Sinn Féin to Gerry Adams’ deradicalization and disavowal of IRA membership to the Good Friday Agreements in 1998.” Patrick Radden Keefe’s book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was described as “a murder mystery political history,” when it was presented as a finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award, which Keefe eventually won.

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