David McKittrick, Seamus
Kelters, Brian Feeney & Chris Thornton
Lost lives : the
stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the
Northern Ireland troubles
Mainstream publishing
Edimbourg, 1999
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Lost lives : the stories of
the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern
Ireland troubles / David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and
Chris Thornton. - Edinburgh : Mainstream ,
1999. - 1600 p.-[16] p. of plates :
ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN 1-84018-227-X
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DESCRIPTION : This is a
unique work filled with passion and violence, with humanity and
inhumanity. It 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.
The authors — three
of them Belfast-born and the fourth an American — are
award-winning journalists. Over a seven-year period, they examined
every single death which was directly caused by the troubles. Their
research has seen them interview withnesses, scour published material
and draw on a huge range of investigative sources to produce a work of
epic proportions. Never before has conflict anywhere in the world been
subjected to such meticulous scrutiny.
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.
As a reference book, Lost
Lives is indispensable ; as a landscape of history
painted in fine detail, it is unique. For anyone interested in Northern
Ireand — or in the human cost of conflict anywhere
— this is destined to be the defining work.
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LE
MONDE, 18 décembre 1999 PATRICE CLAUDE :
De
Patrick Rooney, premier enfant tué, à neuf ans
— « par
erreur » évidemment —,
en août 1969 à Belfast, d'une balle de
mitrailleuse policière, jusqu'à Charles Benner,
assassiné par un commando de ses anciens amis de l'IRA en
juillet dernier, elles sont toutes là, les victimes de ce
qu'on appelle ici pudiquement « les
troubles ». L'idée était de
les sortir une à une de la froide statistique quotidienne,
de leur redonner chair et vie via de vraies notices biographiques, des
informations sur les circonstances de leur décès
et des entretiens avec leurs proches.
Savait-on que les derniers
mots de James Kennedy, coupé en deux à quinze ans
par une mitrailleuse protestante parce qu'il était
catholique furent : « Dites
à maman que je l'aime » ?
Savait-on que maman Kathleen mourut à son tour de chagrin
deux ans plus tard parce que, comme le dit son époux, « certaines
balles continuent longtemps leur course de mort après
qu'elles aient été
tirées » ?
☐
Le
Monde, 18 décembre 1999 [en
ligne]
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COMPLÉMENT
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE |
- David
McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton,
«
Lost lives : the stories of the men, women and children who
died
as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles »
revised and
updated ed., Edinburgh : Mainstream publishing company, 2001, 2004, 2007
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mise-à-jour : 12
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