{"id":325427,"date":"2025-08-07T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325427\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:42:13","slug":"mireia-aixala-recommends-dont-say-anything-by-patrick-radden-keefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325427\/","title":{"rendered":"Mireia Aixal\u00e0 recommends &#8216;Don&#8217;t Say Anything&#8217; by Patrick Radden Keefe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BarcelonaWhen she was 13 or 14, actress Mireia Aixal\u00e0 read a book about an IRA terrorist. &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember the title. I was very young and had the idea that terrorists were always bad. With that book, I understood what it meant to be part of a terrorist group. It was a book designed for young people, and it had a big impact on me,&#8221; the actress recalls. From that moment on, Aixal\u00e0 has always been drawn to books that explore the Northern Ireland conflict and its repercussions. That&#8217;s why she can&#8217;t help but recommend one of the reference titles published in recent years: Don&#8217;t say anything, from the journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/llegim.ara.cat\/actualitat\/arribar-sigut-deixar-buscar-veritat_1_1057404.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Radden Keefe<\/a> (Periscope), translated into Catalan by Ricard Gil. A combination of journalistic investigation and essay, the book chronicles five decades of the conflict through the eyes of two former members of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), a victim of the paramilitary organization, and one of the key figures in the political mediation effort to achieve peace between supporters of Irish unification and loyalists. Don&#8217;t say anything It was a huge international success and <a href=\"https:\/\/es.ara.cat\/media\/series\/no-digas-conflicto-irlanda-norte-entrado-series_1_5199031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It was adapted for television<\/a>, with a series released last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very well-researched book, but at the same time very fictionalized. I&#8217;m especially interested in Radden Keefe because of his writing,&#8221; says Aixal\u00e0. She has also read by the same author. The empire of pain (Periscope). &#8220;I also recommend it. It may be a heavier read, but it&#8217;s very interesting because of the subject matter it addresses,&#8221; says the actress, who premiered this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ara.cat\/culture\/rural-drama-of-losers-catalan_1_5443649.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the show <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ara.cat\/culture\/rural-drama-of-losers-catalan_1_5443649.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Canyon<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ara.cat\/culture\/rural-drama-of-losers-catalan_1_5443649.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in La Villarroel<\/a>. In The empire of painIn , Radden Keefe delves into the effects of OxyContin, an opioid sold as a painkiller that has caused thousands of deaths and millions of addicts in the United States, and the involvement of the Sackler family, responsible for producing and promoting this drug. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BarcelonaWhen she was 13 or 14, actress Mireia Aixal\u00e0 read a book about an IRA terrorist. &#8220;I don&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[117426,6342,6178,106179,256,6697,678,117425,20082,1144,8643,5598,6093,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-aixala","9":"tag-book","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-delve","12":"tag-in","13":"tag-into","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mireia","16":"tag-northern","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-recommends","19":"tag-the","20":"tag-to","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114988013763141174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}