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

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The film features graphic contemporary footage of the Troubles that is juxtaposed against imagery of the natural landscape of Northern Ireland including rivers, waterfalls, and a swan. Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles. 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.

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". This is an incredible piece of meticulous journalism about an era many of whom are totally ignorant. 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. 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".This book is a labor of love and compassion by the four journalists who worked on it over the course of seven years. A soldier who was down in the street shot at the sniper and the reporter thought that saved his life. 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.

It was written by Brian Feeney, Seamus Kelters, David McKittrick, David McVea and Chris Thornton and published 1999. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. 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).I crouched beside him but he was dead to my fingers, and no blood came from the tiny hole in his cheek. 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". Lost Lives: NI public records office working through archive material relating to rare book on Troubles deaths". 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". This is a five star book and I’ll probably never finish it, I’m only on page 60 of 1542 closely printed pages, it will take years.