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Anthony Boyle Didn’t Have To Do Much Research For Say Nothing
“My mom, one of her earliest memories is the Brits raiding the house and her father getting pulled down the stairs by the British Army.”
Boyle has come home in one of the more dramatic ways possible: In the FX series Say Nothing, he plays Brendan Hughes, an officer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army nicknamed “the Dark” and something of a folk hero in Northern Ireland. The history Say Nothing covers is fraught, and Boyle initially expressed concerns that “two American lads,” Keefe and the show’s creator, Josh Zetumer, would try to find a simple narrative in a story about the Troubles. The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.
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