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

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It is the story of the Northern Ireland troubles; it is not concerned with political bickering but with the lives of those who have suffered and the deaths which have resulted from more than three decades of conflict.

It turned out that Number 2555, Ronnie Finlay, aged 32, Protestant, married, 3 children, factory worker, shot by the IRA on 23 August 1983 as he left his factory, was her dad's best friend. That there should be a similar volume for the victims of all conflicts is self-evident, just as self-evidently there never will be. The timeline-style layout didn't make for the most engaging writing, but it was very easily understandable. Mike McCahill in The Guardian wrote that "The variation of voices staves off any monotony inherent in the list format, and each story opens up some revealing front. The pace is quick, which is great for readability, but a little challenging because some of the biggest events—Bloody Sunday, the Hunger Strike, and the Good Friday—feel like they get glossed over.The book was written by the journalists Seamus Kelters of the BBC, David McKittrick of The Independent, and the Belfast journalists Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton. a riposte, a challenge to all of us, for allowing this terrible loss of life, all this grief and heartache in the place where we lived" and that "You just need to hold the book in your hand and feel the weight of that loss". 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.

His shot ricocheted off a wall and fragments of the one bullet hit the three boys he couldn't even see; one lost the fingers of one hand, another lost the back of his head but survived; the third was 16 year old Leo McGuigan. 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". The book traces 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. For anyone interested in Northern Ireand - or in the human cost of conflict anywhere - this is destined to be the defining work.

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. This book tells the story of every single death caused by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and England. Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

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.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The "jolting contrast" of the dialogue and imagery is noted with the "enduring beauty of the Irish landscape" set against "todays gleamingly secure pleasure palaces, built after civil war was replaced by something like peace". I crouched beside him but he was dead to my fingers, and no blood came from the tiny hole in his cheek.