A film based on the book premiered at the 2019 London Film Festival [6] and was broadcast on BBC One in February 2020. And that's one of the most impressive and comprehensive books ever written about the Troubles - Lost Lives. As the car began to drive away the same soldier aimed his automatic weapon at it but this time several people told him not to fire and he didn't. In dispassionate, objective prose, the authors--three journalists and an academic--record the circumstances of every death and a detail about the dead. They are the opening and closing entries in this towering volume that documents the deaths of the 3600 men, women and children killed as a result of the troubles in Northern Ireland over the last 34 years.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Over a seven-year period, the authors examined every death which was directly caused by the troubles. 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 deaths chosen for inclusion in the film are broadly representative of the ratio of deaths of Irish republicans, Loyalist paramilitaries and forces of the British state. We spent weeks poring over books and old newspapers, and tapping the information into a computer: names and ages and personal details of people, some of whom were the parents or brothers or sisters of our colleagues and friends working beside us. The problem is that there has been so much that has come to light since the last edition was printed.

We became engrossed and we starting collecting more files and more information and it turned into one of the most worthwhile things that I have ever done, growing and growing all the time into a huge book," he said.Ciarán Hinds lends the Rooney story new, tragic life; elsewhere, Adrian Dunbar, Susan Lynch and Kenneth Branagh sound understandably moved or appalled by the waste they describe.