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

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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 was written by Brian Feeney, Seamus Kelters, David McKittrick, David McVea and Chris Thornton and published 1999. David McKittrick has been the Ireland correspondent of The Independent since 1986 and was named correspondent of the year in 1999 by BBC2's What the Papers Say.

Featuring high-end cinematography, an orchestral score and readings by an ensemble cast of Irish actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Brendan Gleeson, Roma Downey, Liam Neeson, Bríd Brennan and Stephen Rea, the film is a requiem. Lost Lives is the story of the Northern Ireland troubles told as never before; 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. He has won a number of other awards during more than 20 years of reporting on Northern Ireland, among them the Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for the promotion of peace and understanding in Ireland. Lavery and Hewitt are currently working on a major feature length documentary on the poet Seamus Heaney, for the BBC and Northern Ireland Screen.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. It is a fitting tribute to the relentless monstrosity of those years but not a comfortable read at all. I should add that I think the primary value of Lost Lives is precisely *as* a reference volume, and in that sense I believe the non-partisan approach is completely appropriate.

Some accounts are fairly brief but most go into enough detail to really give you a good overview of that particular incident. And that's one of the most impressive and comprehensive books ever written about the Troubles - Lost Lives.They are the opening and closing entries in this towering volume that documents the deaths of the 3600 men, women and children killed as a result of the troubles in Northern Ireland over the last 34 years. Brian Feeney, who holds a doctorate in Irish history, lives in Belfast and is a senior lecturer at a teacher-training college there. In this way we can often see the pointlessness of individual deaths, deaths of small people who were killed not for any grand cause but because they happened to be of one religion or another or in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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. Imagine, then, undertaking to create an account – as objective an account as possible – of each of the deaths in a situation of conflict which to all intents and purposes is still current (albeit in a much muted form) within your own country and your own culture. We agreed with the Cost of the Troubles group’s attitude on heart attack victims and suicides but we included only those road accident deaths which were known to have taken place during disturbances….This is a moving and funny debut novel set in a quirky coastal community you will be desperate to visit after reading. Authors David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton interviewed many witnesses and drew on previously published material to list the deaths of the 3,600 men, women and children killed as a result of the Troubles. However, there is also a lacuna as big as a Laguna in that it was last published in revised format in 2008. The word 'murder' is not used in the book, even though it features in quotes and legal charges bought against individuals involved in the deaths that the book chronicles.

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