Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

In fact, they had just flown into the country from Belfast, where they worked for the Serious Crime Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Many in Ireland and elsewhere had taken the view that the British bore a responsibility for the famine, one that exceeded callous neglect and began to look more like deliberate murder. Police marksmen patrolled surrounding rooftops: ‘Marksmen on Watch at Conspiracy Trial’, The Times, 10 September 1973. republicans had tried to purchase a house directly across the street: O’Donnell, Special Category, vol. Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women, and Children Who Died As a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles.