Northern Ireland’s Ghosts, Living in Plain Sight
Helen McKendry with a family photograph showing her mother, Jean McConville, and some of Jean’s children. In 1972, the 38-year-old Belfast woman, a mother of 10, was kidnapped in front of her children and murdered by the IRA. She had been accused of passing information to the British forces. Her body was not found until 2003. Helen, McConville’s daughter, is shown second from the right in the photograph on her lap. PETER MUHLY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
