jean mcconville family

abducted and “disappeared” Jean McConville, the mother of ten children, most. After being intimidated out of a Protestant district at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland by loyalists in 1969, the McConville family moved to the republican Falls Road area of West Belfast. The family of Jean McConville, a Belfast mother of 10 who was abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1972, has spent almost five decades trying to … Jean McConville and her family.

Ireland known as the Troubles. Courtesy of Doubleday. of whom were teen- age or younger. While researching for his new book “

Jean Murray was born into a Protestant family in East Belfast but converted after marrying Arthur McConville, a Catholic former British Army soldier. The family of Jean McConville, the young widow kidnapped, killed and buried in secret by the IRA in 1972, have split over how to lay their mother to rest.

Her case became one of the most.

notorious unsolved murders of the. The primary yet unproven allegation in Patrick Radden Keefe’s book Say Nothing is that Marian Price was the third member of the three-person IRA squad that shot dead In 1972, the I.R.A. As Keefe tells the story, McConville’s death is just one piece of a larger story about the …

She is Jean McConville, a Protestant woman who converted to Catholicism, a widow and mother of 10 children. Jean McConville was 38 when she disappeared, and she had spent nearly half her life either pregnant or recovering from childbirth. long period of unrest in Northern.