Say Nothing

Say Nothing tells the tragic story of the Northern Ireland conflict known as “The Troubles.” Based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe, the nine-episode limited series begins with the 1972 abduction of Jean McConville, a widowed, single mother of ten who was murdered and secretly buried by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for allegedly working as an “informant” for the British. Her killing provides a flash point for multiple character narratives based on the memories of former IRA members, all grounded in the shadowy history of “The Disappeared.” Spanning four decades, the series highlights the stories of the Price sisters, Dolours and Marian, whose hunger strike while incarcerated for the 1973 Old Bailey Bombing made them international symbols of Irish Nationalist resistance; and, Gerry Adams, a former IRA lead operative who would go on to build a political career based on a platform of reconciliation while adamantly denying any previous involvement with the organization or with McConvillle’s murder, which he was accused of ordering. For exploring the social power of radical political belief, the code of silence that bound believers to secrecy, and the haunting emotional and psychological consequences of extreme violence on the lives and families of those who were lost and those who survived, Say Nothing wins a Peabody.