Documentary about the IRA and women in Belfast (1995)

Original title: Whatever you say, say nothing
“I don’t like living here, but I can’t run away just because of the killing. I hope nobody in my family is going to get killed”. (Shauna)
On the 14th of July 1994, a woman was found dead close to the Northern Irish border. 34-year-old Caroline of Belfast had been executed by the IRA for being a spy.
6 months earlier, filmmaker Brenda Parkerson had met with Caroline’s daughter Shauna. Caroline said in an interview that she could not remember living in a time of peace; she has been a young child when the “troubles” in Belfast started. During the 25 years during which the war lasted, she got married and raised three children; and only a few weeks before the ceasefire started she was killed. Since the ceasefire, the situation in Northern Ireland has not changed much: the fear to talk is as big as ever before.
Brenda Parkerson investigates the sociological conditions that allowed such a crime to happen.

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A film by Brenda Parkerson

Script, directing: Brenda Parkerson
Camera: Sophie Maintigneux, Peter Miller
Editing: Brenda Parkerson
Sound: Simon Wood

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