I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly

Say Nothing tells the story of the IRA’s abduction and murder of Jean McConville .

She was accused of passing information to British forces, but no evidence of this has ever surfaced.

In parallel, the show follows the very different lives of IRA militants Dolours and Marian Price , along with figures they associated with, like Gerry Adams and Brendan Hughes .

There is a sanitised depiction of the Troubles , which tends to go down well with Americans or southern Irish people, that frames the conflict primarily as a struggle for a united Ireland .

The reality is that the latest phase of Ireland ’s long colonial history was triggered because the predominantly working-class Catholic population in the north was denied fair access to jobs and housing, and experienced gerrymandering.