Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles

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It's not a book one can sit down and read cover to cover, but more a volume of reference that the reader will re-visit time and time again, sadly with some truly heartbreaking stories of the slain, espescially those of the children and the innocent. We all regard that as a shame and a disgrace which goes against the spirit of the book," said David McKittrick, one of the five-strong team who produced Lost Lives.

It is a fitting tribute to the relentless monstrosity of those years but not a comfortable read at all. A man burst into a house in Belfast, shot dead the occupant and then exclaimed: 'Christ, I'm in the wrong house. Former Dublin senator Ian Marshall said he had written to the First and Deputy First Ministers on Friday to ask them to get involved.Eason's has gathered the collection together to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the conflict.

More than 20 years later when it was out of print, Chris Thornton said that much more material had become available and that he and the other authors had hoped to update it but no publishers were interested at the time. But he said it has done justice to the book which was produced by him, David McVea, the late Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton, the producer of the new BBC NI series, Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History. 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.The intention was to do good so the idea that people are making money out of our book is horrendous to us. 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. more compassionate, I feel, because no victim of the troubles is denied his or her moment of acknowledgement regardless of affiliation or history. Inspired by the book of the same name, LOST LIVES was written over seven years by five journalists, it is a book that uniquely records the circumstances of every single death in the conflict. Lost Lives first appeared not long after the Good Friday Agreement, and that timing is probably important in understanding the book's impact: it came at a moment when Northern Ireland was just beginning to look at the immensity of what happened over the previous 30 years.

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".

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" and that "there are images here that couldn't have been shown on the nightly news, interrupting the detachment instilled in the original prose". Co-author David McKittrick said that the book was intended to be as "unemotional and flat as possible". 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. It reminds us of all those thousands of ordinary people who died and who but for this book would be remembered only by family and friends.