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

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a b c d e f g h i Noel McAdam (February 2020). "Lost Lives documentary based on book of all Troubles killings 'raw & emotional' ". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021.

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CAIN Web Service Lost Lives - The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles This is an incredible piece of meticulous journalism about an era many of whom are totally ignorant. My only criticism is the inflated price of such a book.

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The authors researched the book for seven years prior to its publication in 1999. [2] The first edition of the book details the lives of 3,636 people who died as a result of The Troubles from 1966 to 1999. The information detailed includes the "name, date of death, location, profession, religion, age and marital status, together with a brief summary of the circumstances of the particular death". [1] As a reference book, Lost Lives is indispensable; as a landscape of history painted in fine detail, it is unique. For anyone interested in Northern Ireand - or in the human cost of conflict anywhere - this is destined to be the defining work.' Lost Lives to have world premiere at 63rd BFI London Film Festival 2019". Northernirelandscreen.co.uk. 9 October 2019. Gareth Cross (22 January 2021). "Lost Lives: NI public records office working through archive material relating to rare book on Troubles deaths". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (2nd Ed., 10 May 2001). Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company. ... [] - [Book]

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Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company. ... [3816] - [Book] John Breslin (7 December 2020). "Lost Lives: Calls to make rare book on the Troubles available to the public". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (3rd Ed., 1 June 2004). Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company. ... [6894] - [Book] The book and the film do not mention peace talks and negotiations that sought to bring a cessation of the conflict. [5] Robert McCrum in his 2000 review of the book for The Guardian wrote that "It is not fiction, though it is full of heartrending stories, any one of which might provide a gifted writer with the bare bones of a shattering novel. It is not biography, though it is full of ordinary people's lives. It is not really journalism, though it has been compiled by four journalists who may, collectively, have just written the book of their career" and that "There is not space to do justice to the scholarly comprehensiveness, the magisterial evenhandedness or the moral integrity of this astonishing book. Now that the Troubles seem to be over, the publication of Lost Lives is perhaps the great monument for which the bloody history of Northern Ireland has been waiting". [1] Reception [ edit ] 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. 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. Each account is imposible to ignore.Mike McCahill (16 October 2019). "Lost Lives review – requiem for victims of the Troubles". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 February 2021. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (4th Ed.). Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company. ... [] - [Book] 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.

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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. A reporter from the Irish Times named Kevin Myers was in the middle of it. He was in a house and was shot at by some sniper from a house across the road. A soldier who was down in the street shot at the sniper and the reporter thought that saved his life. He ran down to the street to get away from the madness. He saw three kids throwing stones at the soldiers from an alley between two houses. He told them there was shooting going on and they didn't believe him, they hadn't noticed it. 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. That there should be a similar volume for the victims of all conflicts is self-evident, just as self-evidently there never will be. Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

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So – 3,712 death over a period of 40 years. From three year old Jonathan Ball, an English kid killed in Warrington, a town in England, when the IRA planted bombs in litter bins in a shopping mall (a 12 year old boy was also killed in that one) all the way to 91 year old Martha Smylie who was killed by a UDA bomb which was planted at the Imperial Hotel in Belfast. The bomb damaged her old peoples’ home next door and this old lady was badly injured, and died the following day.

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It was announced in January 2021 that the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland had received an archive relating to the book consisting of "265 folders of mainly newspaper cuttings relating to most of those individuals who died as a result of the conflict". [4] The book was published by the Scottish publishers Mainstream Publishing of Edinburgh. It was reprinted in 2008. [3] The book was out of print by December 2020, and Chris Thornton said that he and the surviving authors did not wish the book to be reprinted. [2] Thornton said that much more material had become available since the book was published and he and the other authors had hoped to update it but no publishers were interested. [2] 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". The death of co-author Seamus Kelters also affected them emotionally. Thornton said that "It's wonderful that the book is still being recognised as important...But it's in the past". [2] This book tells the story of every single death caused by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and England. The first one on 11 June 1966 (John Scullion, aged 28, single, storeman) all the way through to the last, on 8 May 2006 (Michael McIlveen, aged 15, schoolboy – number 3712). 2006 is when the last edition was published. There have been a few more deaths since then, but not that many. A handful. 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. (It was available on BBC iPlayer for a period after its broadcast.)

Over a seven-year period, the authors examined every death which was directly caused by the troubles. Their research involved interviewing witnesses, scouring published material, and drawing on a range of investigative sources to produce this study. They trace the origins of the conflict from the firing of the first shots, through the carnage of the 1970s and 1980s and up to the republican and loyalist ceasefires and beyond. a b c d David Young (14 December 2020). " 'Lost Lives' authors do not want book reprinted". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021.