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

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Now it has become a remarkable film, a visual poem that will be shown on Sunday on BBC One Northern Ireland; one that takes small portions of the book, and with the powerful additions of pictures and music, turns the words into a larger expression of Northern Ireland's grief. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (4th Ed. The outcome of this deliberation is a book which is clear, comprehensive (within the limits of the material) and also compassionate; more compassionate, I feel, because no victim of the troubles is denied his or her moment of acknowledgement regardless of affiliation or history. 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.

In most cases it was obvious who should be included, but there were scores of doubtful cases over which we debated and agonised for many hours. Even here, though, Mark Garrett’s roaming camera detects a certain manmade melancholy, and those words and stories keep coming at us, their accumulated weight of detail socking the viewer in the gut and bringing tears to the eyes. 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. I'll speak with the publishers and see what print runs of each book were produced for what edition, and reserve the right to plus or minus individual editions.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. On 9 August 1971 running gun battles erupted between the IRA, the Protestant militias and the British Army. Inspired by the book of the same name, LOST LIVES was written over seven years by five journalists, it is a book that uniquely records the circumstances of every single death in the conflict.

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. 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. There are countless names of people listed here whom I had never heard of as we'll as all those I knew personally or who were neighbours. Hewitt and Lavery wouldn’t have had to wander far into the archives for visual evidence of the taut, fraught Ireland of yesteryear, yet be warned: there are images here that couldn’t have been shown on the nightly news, interrupting the detachment instilled in the original prose. I would be interested in hearing recommendations from anyone more intimately familiar with the troubles than I, in fact.The reference book, which examines every death directly caused by the Troubles between 1968 and 1998, has had four editions published but is currently out of print. While so many of these deaths were accidental and of the ‘wrong place at the wrong time’ nature, I feel that only viewing them through this objective and non-partisan lense is in many ways unfair to ‘some’ of those who died, as it takes away the meanings that they and their familes ascribe to their actions – which are extremely important coping mechanisms to those who have lost family members. I am merely a few hundred deaths into the 3,637 described, and to force myself along at a faster pace would be unfair on myself and on the people remembered on the page.