Say Nothing
I feel thick as champ for not realising until recently that actor Stephen Rea had been married to former paramilitary Dolours Price. It's one of those things I probably was aware of 10+ years ago while researching my PhD but hadn't appreciated the significance of, and then my trauma-addled, burnt-out brain erased the knowledge. It may also be that I take so little notice of celebrities' personal lives that I simply never knew. Plus she died at a time when the flag protests were causing havoc in Belfast and I was starting a temporary and all-consuming new life in Aberdeen. Either way, it's a revelation to me now, and one that feels like an oversight in my PhD and the subsequent book based on it, specifically their conclusions which confront the pervasive legacy of the Disappeared. The ramifications of Rea voicing Willie Doherty's video installation Ghost Story (2007) now hit me like a punch to the gut. It is Buried (2009), which became an unvoiced companion to Gho...