Personal Accounts From Northern Ireland's Troubles Public Conflict, Private Loss

by Smyth, Marie; Fay, Marie-Therese

• ISBN13: 9780745316185
• ISBN10: 0745316182
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

A poignant collection of first-hand accounts drawn from interviews with people from a variety of different backgrounds, this collection brings the personal toll of the Troubles to life.

Author Biography

Marie Smyth is a Research Fellow for INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, University of Ulster and the United Nations University, and Project Director of The Cost of the Troubles Study. Marie-Therese Fay is the Research Officer with the Cost of the Troubles Study in Belfast. They are both coauthors of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, also available from Pluto Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Map of Northern Ireland	viii
Glossary	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
`The Troubles is my life'	7	(13)
Multiple Bereavement and Loss	20	(14)
Serious Injury	34	(8)
Living with the Aftermath	42	(9)
Taking Up Arms	51	(12)
In the Minority	63	(11)
Loss of a Father	74	(8)
His Only Child	82	(5)
Unintended Death	87	(9)
All in a Day's Work	96	(7)
`That was the last time I seen him'	103	(8)
`I don't ask God for anything'	111	(8)
`Just me and the kids'	119	(4)
Rough Justice	123	(8)
Conclusions	131	(7)
Appendix	138	(6)
Index	144