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. a b c d e f g h i Noel McAdam (February 2020). "Lost Lives documentary based on book of all Troubles killings 'raw & emotional' ". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021.

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Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth This work may be written objectively but as you read it you cannot help getting sympathetic, sad, angry and frustrated at the immense lose of life that went on year after year despite all communities condemning death after death after death. This work shows that war of any kind is not only needless but wastes lives on all sides whether the people affected are involved or not and shows how terror and fear cripple communities into submission despite their resistance. Lost Lives traces the origins of the conflict from the firing of the first shots, through the carnage of the 1970s and 1980s to the republican and loyalist ceasefires and beyond. All the casualties are here: the RUC officer, the young soldier, the IRA volunteer, the loyalist paramilitary, the Catholic mother, the Protestant worker, the new-born baby. Each account is imposible to ignore. It was also shown on BBC One NI at 21:00 on 16 February 2020, and on BBC Two at 22:00 on 7 March 2020. (It was available on BBC iPlayer for a period after its broadcast.)

a b c Robert McCrum (9 January 2000). "Painful memories of the Troubles". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 February 2021. 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". [4] A reporter from the Irish Times named Kevin Myers was in the middle of it. He was in a house and was shot at by some sniper from a house across the road. A soldier who was down in the street shot at the sniper and the reporter thought that saved his life. He ran down to the street to get away from the madness. He saw three kids throwing stones at the soldiers from an alley between two houses. He told them there was shooting going on and they didn't believe him, they hadn't noticed it. 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. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (2nd Ed., 10 May 2001). Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company. ... [] - [Book] The film was directed by Michael Hewitt and Dermot Lavery. Hewitt said he felt the actors were not just "lending their voices but giving their voice in support of what the film represents for us" which was "A reminder of the terrible loss, in the hope that we do not repeat the mistakes of our past". Lavery said that the book was "...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". [5]

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John Breslin (7 December 2020). "Lost Lives: Calls to make rare book on the Troubles available to the public". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021. covers some of the real tragedies in the wee province and even worse some of the ones we have forgotten about This book tells the story of every single death caused by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and England. The first one on 11 June 1966 (John Scullion, aged 28, single, storeman) all the way through to the last, on 8 May 2006 (Michael McIlveen, aged 15, schoolboy – number 3712). 2006 is when the last edition was published. There have been a few more deaths since then, but not that many. A handful.Gareth Cross (22 January 2021). "Lost Lives: NI public records office working through archive material relating to rare book on Troubles deaths". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021. a b c d David Young (14 December 2020). " 'Lost Lives' authors do not want book reprinted". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 1 February 2021. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, (4th Ed.). Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company. ... [] - [Book]

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Mike McCahill (16 October 2019). "Lost Lives review – requiem for victims of the Troubles". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 February 2021.

The book and the film do not mention peace talks and negotiations that sought to bring a cessation of the conflict. [5] Robert McCrum in his 2000 review of the book for The Guardian wrote that "It is not fiction, though it is full of heartrending stories, any one of which might provide a gifted writer with the bare bones of a shattering novel. It is not biography, though it is full of ordinary people's lives. 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. Now that the Troubles seem to be over, the publication of Lost Lives is perhaps the great monument for which the bloody history of Northern Ireland has been waiting". [1] Reception [ edit ] A film based on the book premiered at the 2019 London Film Festival [6] and was broadcast on BBC One in February 2020. [5] The film features voiceovers from the actors Kenneth Branagh, Roma Downey, Adrian Dunbar, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Sean McGinley, Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Stephen Rea, and Bronagh Waugh. It is 90 minutes in duration. The film features graphic contemporary footage of the Troubles that is juxtaposed against imagery of the natural landscape of Northern Ireland including rivers, waterfalls, and a swan. [5] The lives of 18 people from the book are detailed by voice overs in the film. [5] The deaths chosen for inclusion in the film are broadly representative of the ratio of deaths of Irish republicans, Loyalist paramilitaries and forces of the British state. [5] That there should be a similar volume for the victims of all conflicts is self-evident, just as self-evidently there never will be. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company. ... [3816] - [Book]