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

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That there should be a similar volume for the victims of all conflicts is self-evident, just as self-evidently there never will be. Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

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McKittrick (Through the Minefield, LJ 2/15/00) and his coauthors are all experienced journalists of the North Ireland beat. Over a seven-year period, they examined every single death which was directly caused by the troubles. 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. West Belfast is the deadliest neighborhood, and the IRA is responsible for almost half the deaths, though a sizable minority of the victims dies from their own blunders, e.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. 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.

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The timeline-style layout didn't make for the most engaging writing, but it was very easily understandable. Hewitt said he felt the actors were not just "lending their voices but giving their voice in support of what the film represents for us" which was "A reminder of the terrible loss, in the hope that we do not repeat the mistakes of our past". Assembled from official casualty lists, newspaper accounts, secondary sources, conversations, privately published pamphlets, and the authors' own notes, entries range from a few lines to virtual chapters.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". By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. And that is exactly what the authors have done, without prejudice or bias, they have produced an epic work that cuts through all the scandals, finger-pointing and accusations that dominate all the other works written about the Troubles and simply states who, where and how without trying to assess the why (which lets face it no-one has ever really managed to answer properly). The book and the film do not mention peace talks and negotiations that sought to bring a cessation of the conflict. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (3rd Ed.

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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.Over a seven-year period, the authors examined every death which was directly caused by the troubles. The authors - three of them Belfast-born and the fourth an American - are award-winning journalists. It was also shown on BBC One NI at 21:00 on 16 February 2020, and on BBC Two at 22:00 on 7 March 2020. Collectively, they provide a renewed sense of just how widespread and all-consuming the Troubles were, how they caught up combatants and civilians, young and old alike" and that "there are images here that couldn't have been shown on the nightly news, interrupting the detachment instilled in the original prose".

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It is a fitting tribute to the relentless monstrosity of those years but not a comfortable read at all. 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. This work may be written objectively but as you read it you cannot help getting sympathetic, sad, angry and frustrated at the immense lose of life that went on year after year despite all communities condemning death after death after death.

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. As the car began to drive away the same soldier aimed his automatic weapon at it but this time several people told him not to fire and he didn't. It is the story of the Northern Ireland troubles; it is not concerned with political bickering but with the lives of those who have suffered and the deaths which have resulted from more than three decades of conflict. The incredible human toll, the waste, the confusion, the passion, the misery, and yes, also the compassion, the dignity, the courage, the forgiveness, all of it is detailed here in a way that is at once both decidedly personal and quite objective. 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".