Review
"The greatest single piece of scholarship in either journalism or historical studies that has ever been conducted in this country. In its encyclopedic detail, in its towering integrity and in its moral compassion, it could be the most influential study of Irish history that has ever been presented" (Kevin Myers Irish Times)
"There is not even space to do justice to the scholarly comprehensiveness, the magisterial even-handedness or the moral integrity of this astonishing book" (Robert McCrum, Literary Editor The Observer)
"The scrupulous, austere, secular litany that is Lost Lives is the greatest act of remembrance that has yet emerged. It restores, with its economical but vivid detail, the humanity behind the statistics" (Fintan O'Toole Irish Times)
"A devastating account of the price paid for peace. Read it and weep. I know I did, and without apology to the cynics" (Fergal Keane, BBC correspondent)
"The most influential reference book in Irish history" (Irish News)
About the Author
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. He has won a number of other awards during more than 20 years of reporting on Northern Ireland, among them the Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for the promotion of peace and understanding in Ireland. His publications include four collections of his journalism. Seamus Kelters is an assistant news editor with the BBC in Belfast. He has also worked as a producer with BBC Northern Ireland's political unit and its current affairs programme Spotlight. Before joining the BBC he was a senior reporter with the Irish News where he specialised in security-related stories. He has written a book on Gaelic games. Brian Feeney, who holds a doctorate in Irish history, lives in Belfast and is a senior lecturer at a teacher-training college there. An experienced political commentator, he writes a weekly column for a local newspaper and was formerly a city councillor for almost a decade. Widely travelled, he is regarded as an expert on electoral mechanisms. Chris Thornton, an American living in Belfast, is the security correspondent of the Belfast Telegraph. He has previous experience with both of Belfast's main morning newspapers, the News Letter and the Irish News.