I don’t know if you think this is really weird but when there’s something on the news or Belfast Live or, say, I just hear talk about stuff that’s gone down – a murder or an attack or a fight – I always immediately look up online the people involved. I suppose it’s to see […]

According to one scholar, the “ideal victim” in the Troubles was someone who was not a combatant, but a passive civilian. To many, Jean McConville was the perfect victim: a widow, a mother of ten. To others, she was not a victim at all, but a combatant by proxy, who courted her own fate. Of […]