Josh Finan as a young Gerry Adams in Say Nothing
Based on the book of the same name, is Disney’s tilt at turning the Troubles into prestige TV. Set against the early days of the conflict in the late 1960s, it begins as the Provisional IRA is upping its campaign against the British state. The series anchors itself in the disappearance of mother-of-10 Jean McConville. One night in 1972, McConville disappeared from her flat in Belfast. Senior republicans Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price, two of the series’ central characters, later admitted involvement in McConville’s kidnapping and murder, and the IRA went on to claim she had passed information to British forces. Both said Gerry Adams ordered the disappearance. A 2014 investigation into McConville’s
