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Автор Патрик Радден Киф
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Copyright © Patrick Radden Keefe 2018
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Title page image: Aerial photograph of Divis Flats, Belfast, from 1982 (Judah Passow)
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Source ISBN: 9780008159252
Ebook Edition © November 2018 ISBN: 9780008159276
Version: 2018-10-25
Dedication
To Lucian and Felix
Contents
PROLOGUE: The Treasure Room
BOOK ONE: THE CLEAR, CLEAN, SHEER THING
1 An Abduction
2 Albert’s Daughters
3 Evacuation
4 An Underground Army
5 St Jude’s Walk
6 The Dirty Dozen
7 The Little Brigadier
8 The Cracked Cup
9 Orphans
10 The Freds
BOOK TWO: HUMAN SACRIFICE
11 Close England!
12 The Belfast Ten
13 The Toy Salesman
14 The Ultimate Weapon
15 Captives
16 A Clockwork Doll
17 Field Day
18 The Bloody Envelope
19 Blue Ribbons
BOOK THREE: A RECKONING
20 A Secret Archive
21 On the Ledge
22 Touts
23 Bog Queen
24 An Entanglement of Lies
25 The Last Gun
26 The Mystery Radio
27 The Boston Tapes
28 Death by Misadventure
29 This Is the Past
30 The Unknown
Acknowledgements
A Note on Sources
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Epigraph
‘All wars are fought twice, the first time on the
battlefield, the second time in memory. ’
– VIET THANH NGUYEN
PROLOGUE
The Treasure Room
July 2013
The John J. Burns Library occupies a grand neo-Gothic building on the leafy campus of Boston College.
With its stone spires and stained glass, it looks very much like a church. The Jesuits who founded the university in 1863 did so to educate the children of poor immigrants who had fled the potato famine in Ireland. As Boston College grew and flourished over the next century and a half, it maintained close ties to the old country. With 250,000 volumes and some sixteen million manuscripts, the Burns Library holds the most comprehensive collection of Irish political and cultural artefacts in the United States. One of its librarians, years ago, was sent to prison after he was caught trying to sell to Sotheby’s a tract by Saint Thomas Aquinas that was printed in 1480. The library developed such a reputation for purchasing valuable antiquities that a subsequent director once had to call the FBI himself, when an Irish grave robber tried to sell him looted tombstones bearing ancient Latin crosses and intricate rings and inscriptions.
