Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles

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This is an important book for anyone interested in the cause of peace, and a must read for lovers of Ireland and the Irish people.

anyone in or out of Northern Ireland, or anywhere else for that matter, who thinks violence is the answer should read this (or even just slowly flick through it) and see that it achieves nothing except needless pain and suffering generally by those not involved. Subscribers to our mailing list here will get this first, so it might be a good idea to pop over and join that. There may be some who believe that more detail should have been given to provide more context for each death, but had the authors done this the work would have lost it's poignancy and impact as the individual deaths got lost in the political and religious miasma.As a frequent visitor to Belfast and a partisan of the city and its people, this read is painful, and difficult, but invaluable. Despite detailing the violent deaths of thousands of people at the hands of others, the word ‘murder’ is not used in the book except where it features in quotes and legal charges brought against individuals. We agreed with the Cost of the Troubles group’s attitude on heart attack victims and suicides but we included only those road accident deaths which were known to have taken place during disturbances…. They have decided to go for the horror and I believe in some of the first screenings of the film, there were actual gasps in the audience".

Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (2nd Ed. Lost Lives: NI public records office working through archive material relating to rare book on Troubles deaths". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. He has also worked as a producer with BBC Northern Ireland's political unit and its current affairs programme Spotlight.The film features voiceovers from the actors Kenneth Branagh, Roma Downey, Adrian Dunbar, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Sean McGinley, Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Stephen Rea, and Bronagh Waugh. All the casualties are here: the RUC officer, the young soldier, the IRA volunteer, the loyalist paramilitary, the Catholic mother, the Protestant worker, the new-born baby. Perhaps its stark subtitle and colossal length were too off-putting: 'The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland Troubles'. David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton are four people from very different backgrounds, all with a strong connection to the events in Northern Ireland, and they have succeeded in what to many would be an insurmountable task. Then the soldier who had just shot at the sniper thought there was another sniper in the alley where the kids were, and fired again.

The aim of the book is to provide a chronological list of all those who have died during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, either through direct violence or indirectly as a result of actions taken during this time. But Seamus mostly understood that this was a sign of the book's egalitarian appeal; that Lost Lives' goal, which was simply to record every death caused by the Troubles, was recognised and appreciated as much by thieves as it was by professors. Inspired by the book of the same name, it records the circumstances of every man, woman and child who died in a conflict - the Northern Irish 'Troubles.Hewitt and Lavery wouldn’t have had to wander far into the archives for visual evidence of the taut, fraught Ireland of yesteryear, yet be warned: there are images here that couldn’t have been shown on the nightly news, interrupting the detachment instilled in the original prose.

The senselessness of the killing in Ulster, in fact, is one great theme that the four authors identify in their introduction.There are parts which will shock but hopefully the film will underline the message that there mustn't be any more lives lost to the Troubles here. I’d much rather hold a book in my hands but the Internet Archive does have a copy they are loaning out, if you want to read it on your kindle. It is the story of Northern Ireland troubles told as never before; it is not concerned with the political bickering buth with the lives of those who have suffered and deaths which have resulted from more than three decades of conflict. For those book nerds out there who have a barcode scanner on their Christmas list, the real title of the tome in question is Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles .