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 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.

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. 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. 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.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. There may be some who believe that more detail should have been given to provide more context for each death, but had the authors done this the work would have lost it's poignancy and impact as the individual deaths got lost in the political and religious miasma. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Featuring high-end cinematography, an orchestral score and readings by an ensemble cast of Irish actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Brendan Gleeson, Roma Downey, Liam Neeson, Bríd Brennan and Stephen Rea, the film is a requiem.

As a reference book, Lost Lives is indispensable; as a landscape of history painted in fine detail, it is unique.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. This is a five star book and I’ll probably never finish it, I’m only on page 60 of 1542 closely printed pages, it will take years. The bomb damaged her old peoples’ home next door and this old lady was badly injured, and died the following day. 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. 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, (4th Ed. Lost Lives: The Stories of men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles.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. Co-author David McKittrick said that the book was intended to be as "unemotional and flat as possible". 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. The book and the film do not mention peace talks and negotiations that sought to bring a cessation of the conflict. 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.

I crouched beside him but he was dead to my fingers, and no blood came from the tiny hole in his cheek. Over a seven-year period, the authors examined every death which was directly caused by the 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. Featured in the film are Kenneth Branagh, Bríd Brennan, Roma Downey, Adrian Dunbar, Michelle Fairley, Bronagh Gallagher, Brendan Gleeson, Dan Gordon, Ciarán Hinds, Conleth Hill, Susan Lynch, Des McAleer, Martin McCann, Ian McElhinney, Sean McGinley, James Nesbitt, Liam Neeson, Emer O’Connor, Stephen Rea, Judith Roddy, Michael Smiley and Bronagh Waugh.This is an important book for anyone interested in the cause of peace, and a must read for lovers of Ireland and the Irish people. 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. Over a seven-year period, they examined every single death which was directly caused by the troubles. It is a fitting tribute to the relentless monstrosity of those years but not a comfortable read at all. Written over seven years by five journalists, it is the only book to record the circumstances of every death in the Northern Irish Troubles.