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

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This book--a brilliant combination of the journalistic and the scholarly--will stand as a memorial to the dead.

Kirsty, I feel that this book is an important one to have been reviewed, now that the idea of a truth recovery process is being debated more frequently here in the north of Ireland. It is a fitting tribute to the relentless monstrosity of those years but not a comfortable read at all. And go on and on it did, piling senseless killing on pointless slaughter, in a danse macabre that should, perhaps, have found some memorial amid the festivities of the past weekend.When you see some copies available, some are heavily thumbed, the pages have become creased, but it is still very much in demand. You are very welcome to quote up to 100 words from any article posted on Vulpes Libris - as long as you quote accurately, give us due credit and link back to the original post. Most historians would tell you that when it comes to the study of difficult or painful events, the idea of attempting historical objectivity frequently comes under attack. Here are the men who chose to fight, here are the people who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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. I will admit that the first thing I did when I was handed this book by a Belfast friend was to look up my own surname, with the spelling favoured by my Northern Irish grandfather. For students of Troubles history, that means those who lost their lives since 'Lost Lives' was last printed aren't included in the print copies. Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. It gives more detail about some of the killings in Northern Ireland and I can’t quite describe how it left me feeling.The authors didn't have a direct say on which of their stories would be included, but when they saw a rough cut of the movie they were satisfied. 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. Following the critical success of the 2019 cinematic film LOST LIVES, the historical film adaptation of the during ‘The Troubles’ releases a limited-run vinyl of their RTS NI award-winning soundtrack on 18 December. 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. 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.

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. I only wish the authors had conducted a subsequent sequel on 'Injured Lives' to take into account the numbers of those maimed and seriously injured by the troubles. DoubleBand Films had been keen to do something with the book but David McKittrick, who had worked as a consultant with them on a number of occasions, said he couldn't envisage how anyone could turn Lost Lives into a film or TV programme. But last night former Belfast Telegraph political editor Mr Thornton - now with BBC NI's Spotlight team - said that while he was flattered that the book was still being talked about 20 years since it was first published, he and his co-authors did not want the book reprinted for a few reasons.For a non specialist like me, it provides a solid orientation in the history of the troubles – after all, there is nothing like the way people die to tell you about the conditions in which they lived – and at the same time makes it all immediate in a way that those of us who grew up elsewhere could not otherwise experience. It was – and remains – the only book to record the circumstances of every single death in a conflict. It details, in over a million words, the stories behind every one of the 3,700 deaths during three decades of the horror.