Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles by McKittrick, David; Kelters, Seamus; Feeney, Brian; Thornton, Chris; McVea, David
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Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles by McKittrick, David; Kelters, Seamus; Feeney, Brian; Thornton, Chris; McVea, David
Hardcover, ISBN 9781840185041
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2004
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This 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. Over a seven-year period, the authors examined every death which was directly caused by the troubles. Their research involved interviewing witnesses, scouring published material, and drawing on a range of investigative sources to produce this study. They trace 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. 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.
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. It was written by Brian Feeney, Seamus Kelters, David McKittrick, David McVea and Chris Thornton and published 1999. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2019.
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.
The authors researched the book for seven years prior to its publication in 1999. 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. 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".
The book was published by the Scottish publishers Mainstream Publishing of Edinburgh. It was reprinted in 2008. The book was out of print by December 2020, and Chris Thornton said that he and the surviving authors did not wish the book to be reprinted. Thornton said that much more material had become available since the book was published and he and the other authors had hoped to update it but no publishers were interested. 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". The death of co-author Seamus Kelters also affected them emotionally. Thornton said that "It's wonderful that the book is still being recognised as important...But it's in the past".
It was announced in January 2021 that the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland had received an archive relating to the book consisting of "265 folders of mainly newspaper cuttings relating to most of those individuals who died as a result of the conflict".
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. Co-author David McKittrick said that the book was intended to be as "unemotional and flat as possible".