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

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It is not concerned with the political bickering, but with the lives of those who have suffered and the deaths which have resulted from more than three decades of conflict. All the casualties are remembered here--the RUC officer, the young soldier, the IRA volunteer, the loyalist paramilitary, the Catholic mother, the Protestant worker, and the new-born baby.

Brian Feeney, who holds a doctorate in Irish history, lives in Belfast and is a senior lecturer at a teacher-training college there. A warm, unsentimental and beautifully-observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'If I were in bother I'd want the Ballybrady bunch at my back. This book tells the story of every single death caused by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and England.Thornton said that he and the other authors were opposed to any potential governmental involvement in the reprinting of the book as it would "leave it open to political influence". But I am already very grateful to the authors for providing a resource that allows me to begin to form an understanding of a tremendously complex and bloody situation that not only raged for a long time on the very doorstep of my own homeland – and in which my country was explicitly involved – but which swallowed up friends and relatives of my own friends and relatives. Lost Lives shows that while the great majority of the killing was done by republican groups and loyalist paramilitary organisations, the deepest source of resentment and sense of injustice is to be found among the several hundred families which lost members at the hands of the security forces. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Here are the men who chose to fight, here are the people who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.This is not just any old book on the Troubles, but the difinitve record of how every man, woman and child lost their lives in the conflict. In the era of attention-grabbing listicles, there is one list that stands the test of time, remaining as important as it is moving, as relevant as it was when first released 24 years ago. Readers unfamiliar with the troubles also need to bear in mind that acts of violence not leading to death – torture, maiming, beating – obviously do not fall into the remit of Lost Lives, although they often appear in the context of a given case.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Co-author David McKittrick said that it was intended to be as “unemotional and flat as possible” and the carefully crafted dedication of just 17 words, reads: ‘This work is dedicated to our children, that they might learn from lessons of the past’. And that's one of the most impressive and comprehensive books ever written about the Troubles - Lost Lives. To do that we approached David McKittrick, then the London Independent's Ireland correspondent, a man already recognised as one of the foremost chroniclers of the Troubles and someone who had a considerable personal archive.

Entry by entry, the film constructs a sorrowful history of promise extinguished and offers a pointed reminder of what lurks behind any rollback of the Good Friday agreement. a riposte, a challenge to all of us, for allowing this terrible loss of life, all this grief and heartache in the place where we lived" and that "You just need to hold the book in your hand and feel the weight of that loss". The book was written by four journalists, the late Seamus Kelters, David McKittrick, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton, as an compilation of the Troubles related deaths across three decades.For students of Troubles history, that means those who lost their lives since 'Lost Lives' was last printed aren't included in the print copies.