It is often quoted from as an authority and the National Library of Ireland are still looking for another copy. 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. A man burst into a house in Belfast, shot dead the occupant and then exclaimed: 'Christ, I'm in the wrong house. Lost Lives shows that while the great majority of the killing was done by republican groups and loyalist paramilitary organisations, the deepest source of resentment and sense of injustice is to be found among the several hundred families which lost members at the hands of the security forces.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The exhibition ended with a display of notes on a large wall showcasing the reactions of previous visitors. This book has been described as the greatest single piece of scholarship in either journalism or in historical studies that has ever been conducted in Ireland, in its encyclopedic detail, in its towering integrity and in its moral compassion. I'll speak with the publishers and see what print runs of each book were produced for what edition, and reserve the right to plus or minus individual editions.

This is not just any old book on the Troubles, but the difinitve record of how every man, woman and child lost their lives in the conflict.

There are countless names of people listed here whom I had never heard of as we'll as all those I knew personally or who were neighbours. Authors David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton interviewed many witnesses and drew on previously published material to list the deaths of the 3,600 men, women and children killed as a result of the Troubles. And that is exactly what the authors have done, without prejudice or bias, they have produced an epic work that cuts through all the scandals, finger-pointing and accusations that dominate all the other works written about the Troubles and simply states who, where and how without trying to assess the why (which lets face it no-one has ever really managed to answer properly).This book--a brilliant combination of the journalistic and the scholarly--will stand as a memorial to the dead. 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.

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. The outcome of this deliberation is a book which is clear, comprehensive (within the limits of the material) and also compassionate; more compassionate, I feel, because no victim of the troubles is denied his or her moment of acknowledgement regardless of affiliation or history. 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. Closer studies of the troubles in their various aspects will, of course, provide a larger perspective that a volume like this simply can’t. David McKittrick has been the Ireland correspondent of The Independent since 1986 and was named correspondent of the year in 1999 by BBC2's What the Papers Say.Co-author David McKittrick said that it was intended to be as “unemotional and flat as possible” and the carefully crafted dedication of just 17 words, reads: ‘This work is dedicated to our children, that they might learn from lessons of the past’.