Volume 47, Number 15 · October 5, 2000
Are the Troubles Over?
By Fintan O'Toole
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles Square
by David McKittrick, by Seamus Kelters, by Brian Feeney, by Chris Thornton
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing (distributed in the US by Trafalgar, 1,630 pp., $60.00
Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science
edited by Anthony F. Heath, edited by Richard Breen, edited by Christopher T. Whelan
British Academy/Oxford University Press, 535 pp., £29.99
The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA
by Malachi O'Doherty
Belfast: Blackstaff, 221 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972
by Peter Pringle, by Philip Jacobson
London: Fourth Estate, 310 pp., £12.99 (paper)
Northern Ireland's Troubles: The Human Costs
by Marie-Therese Fay, by Mike Morrissey, by Marie Smyth
London: Pluto Press, 229 pp., $22.50 (paper)
The scene is so stark and grief-stricken, so full of pity and terror, that it might have been created by Sophocles or Aeschylus. From time to time, the grown-up children of Jean McConville gather on the beautiful beach of Templetown on the shores of Carlingford Lough, a few miles south of Northern Ireland's border with the Irish Republic. They wait in the parking lot or on the dunes, while members of the Irish police dig holes and pits, looking for the bones of their mother.
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