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

Product Information

I was born in Dublin 1969 and would love to go back in time to show both sides of the troubles all of the unnecessary murders and carnage that would unfold in the forthcoming years. It is human nature that this should be so: we have seen our task as simply providing the facts which will allow readers to make their own judgements. Those who died in the troubles included civilians, members of loyalist and republican groups, political figures, soldiers , joyriders, alleged drug dealers, judges and magistrates, those killed in the course of armed robberies, prison officers, police officers, convicted killers, businessmen, alleged informers, Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) members, those who died on hunger strike, men, women, children, pensioners and unborn babies. Lost Lives: NI public records office working through archive material relating to rare book on Troubles deaths".

His shot ricocheted off a wall and fragments of the one bullet hit the three boys he couldn't even see; one lost the fingers of one hand, another lost the back of his head but survived; the third was 16 year old Leo McGuigan. When Grace saves his life in a kayaking accident - if it was an accident - and Evan's troubled son arrives to stay, all three are drawn together in a way that forces a reckoning with their personal traumas and draws them back into society. Lavery and Hewitt are currently working on a major feature length documentary on the poet Seamus Heaney, for the BBC and Northern Ireland Screen. The bomb damaged her old peoples’ home next door and this old lady was badly injured, and died the following day. On 23 October 2019, a film (1 hour, 29 minutes) based on the book Lost Lives was released in the UK for one night only.Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles is a book that details the lives of people that died as a result of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Ciarán Hinds lends the Rooney story new, tragic life; elsewhere, Adrian Dunbar, Susan Lynch and Kenneth Branagh sound understandably moved or appalled by the waste they describe.

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.DoubleBand Films had been keen to do something with the book but David McKittrick, who had worked as a consultant with them on a number of occasions, said he couldn't envisage how anyone could turn Lost Lives into a film or TV programme. 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. He has previous experience with both of Belfast's main morning newspapers, the News Letter and the Irish News. Eventually Mainstream Publishing in Edinburgh agreed to take a massive financial gamble to bring out the book. For anyone interested in Northern Ireland - or in the human cost of conflict anywhere - this is destined to be the defining work.

He has also worked as a producer with BBC Northern Ireland's political unit and its current affairs programme Spotlight. 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. Brian Feeney, who holds a doctorate in Irish history, lives in Belfast and is a senior lecturer at a teacher-training college there. Lost Lives traces the origins of the conflict from the firing of the first shots, through the carnage of the 1970s and 1980s to the republican and loyalist ceasefires and beyond. 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.

The intention was to do good so the idea that people are making money out of our book is horrendous to us. Kirsty, I feel that this book is an important one to have been reviewed, now that the idea of a truth recovery process is being debated more frequently here in the north of Ireland.

We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners.And go on and on it did, piling senseless killing on pointless slaughter, in a danse macabre that should, perhaps, have found some memorial amid the festivities of the past weekend. Here are the men who chose to fight, here are the people who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. This entry was posted on October 16, 2009 by kirstyjane in Entries by Kirsty, Non-fiction: current affairs, Non-fiction: history and tagged conflict, death, northern ireland, politics, troubles. We have done a lot of work in the hope it will be re-published again in 2019, which will be our fifth edition. This book--a brilliant combination of the journalistic and the scholarly--will stand as a memorial to the dead.