Definitive ‘Troubles’ publication goes from strength to strength
By John McGuirk
11 June 2006
An acclaimed book recounting the story of every fatal victim of the Troubles is set to be reprinted.
Lost Lives: The Stories of The Men, Women and Children Who Died Through The Northern Ireland Troubles will be republished by Mainstream later this year.
A spokeswoman told Sunday Life that the book - which meticulously catalogues more than 3,600 murders - will hit the bookshelves again by the end of the summer.
The book, compiled and written by award-winning journalists David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Belfast Telegraph political correspondent Chris Thornton, was a surprise publishing success on its release in October 1999.
The result of seven years’ research, it has been reprinted three times since 1999, being revised most recently in June 2004.
There have been 17 killings since the last revision - including those of Robert McCartney, ex-UDA boss Jim Gray, IRA informer Denis Donaldson and Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen.
However, it’s understood that the fifth and latest version of the 1,600-page book will not include these deaths.
Lost Lives has been acclaimed as “the most essential work ever produced on the Troubles” and was labelled by renowned writer and broadcaster Nell McCafferty as “the print equivalent of Picasso’s Guernica”.
