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

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

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'An emotional and shocking encounter with the private and harrowing stories of ordinary people ... Bold and courageous.' The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest.

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Author / Creator: Smyth, Marie.
Other Authors / Creators:Fay, Marie-Therese.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: London : Pluto Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Political violence > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century.
Social conflict > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century.
Victims of terrorism > Northern Ireland > Family relationships.
Victims of terrorism > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century.
Violent deaths > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century.
Northern Ireland > History.
Northern Ireland > Social conditions > 1969-.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map of Norethern Ireland
  • Glossary
  • 1 The Troubles is my life
  • 2 Multiple Bereavement and Loss
  • 3 Serious Injury
  • 4 Living with the Aftermath
  • 5 Taking Up Arms
  • 6 In the Minority
  • 7 Loss of a Father
  • 8 His Only Child
  • 9 Unintended Death
  • 10 All in a Day's Work
  • 11 That was the last time I seen him
  • 12 I don't ask God for anything
  • 13 Just me and the kids
  • 14 Rough Justice
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Index
  • Action for Peace, 100
  • Adams, Gerry, 99
  • anger
  • 79-80
  • 106
  • 109
  • community, 80
  • Anglo-Irish Agreement 66
  • anniversaries 134-5
  • B Specials 98
  • Ballymurphy 20
  • barricades
  • 21
  • 66
  • Belfast
  • bin lids [rough music], 21
  • Divis Street, 20
  • Falls Road, 20
  • racism in, 90-1
  • Shankill Road, 20
  • Unity Flats, 20
  • Unity Flats, 26
  • Bloody Sunday
  • 65
  • 100
  • bombs 53
  • Boyd, Iris 82-6
  • Castlereagh Interrogation Centre
  • 25
  • 54-5
  • 69
  • Catholics, death rate 2
  • cease-fire
  • Catholic view of, 118
  • optimism about, 86
  • pessimism about, 40-1
  • pessimism about, 129
  • Protestant view of, 71
  • childhood
  • destroyed, 113-14
  • destroyed, 117-18
  • destroyed, 127
  • experiences of, 74
  • experiences of, 87
  • experiences of, 89-91
  • children
  • as source of encouragement, 85
  • dependence on, 122
  • effect on, 17-18
  • fear for, 18
  • Chinese community, racism and 94-5
  • Chopra, Asha, death of 92-4
  • civil rights marches
  • 63
  • 97
  • class, and impact of Troubles 133-4
  • Clements, David
  • 74-81
  • murder of father, 76-8
  • murder of friend, 75-6
  • Clonard Fitzroy Fellowship 101
  • Coleraine 72
  • Commission of Racial Equality, in Belfast 91-2
  • community
  • and identity, 97
  • relations with police, 41
  • compensation
  • 30-1
  • denied, 16
  • denied, 121
  • discrepancy in levels of, 48.
  • limited, 37
  • limited, 93
  • limited, 127
  • work to improve, 78
  • Corrigan, Mairead 100
  • Corrymeela Community
  • 97
  • 99-100
  • 101
  • Cost of the Troubles Study 1
  • counselling, lack of 84
  • court cases
  • 13-14
  • 55-6
  • 69-70
  • cross-community activities
  • 71
  • 72
  • damage to property
  • 67
  • 85
  • 127
  • death rates, comparative 2
  • Derry Londonderry
  • 72-3
  • 89-90
  • 91
  • Abercorn Road, 63
  • Irish Street Estate, 68
  • Protestant exodus from, 65-6
  • Protestant exodus from, 71
  • riots, 63
  • riots, 66-7
  • shootings, 66
  • the Fountain [Protestant enclave], 63
  • the Fountain [Protestant enclave], 66
  • the Fountain [Protestant enclave], 70-1
  • dirty protests 56-7
  • Disabled Police Officers Association
  • 34
  • 35
  • discrimination
  • racist, 94
  • religious, 94
  • dissociation from Troubles 134
  • Do You Know What's Happened? exhibition
  • 3
  • 142
  • drink
  • 106
  • 107
  • 109
  • 121-2
  • 129
  • Drumcree march 101
  • Dungannon, bomb 74
  • England
  • as refuge, 13
  • as refuge, 27
  • as refuge, 130
  • racism in, 87
  • Equal Opportunities Commission
  • 101
  • family relations, strained, 54
  • family relations, strained, 60
  • family relations, strained, 125-6
  • Faulkner, Brian 97
  • fear
  • continuing, 38
  • continuing, 129
  • of further violence, 11
  • forgiveness
  • 78-9
  • 136
  • Greysteel massacre 70
  • grief
  • 23
  • 28-9
  • and wakes, 84
  • H-Blocks
  • 55
  • dirty protests, 56-7
  • habituation to experiences 133
  • hatred of perpetrators
  • 106
  • as short-term emotion, 16-17
  • none, 85-6
  • hatred, and racism 94
  • help
  • family support, 24
  • family support, 28
  • lack of, 9
  • lack of, 13
  • lack of, 70
  • limited, 16
  • limited, 127
  • help, financial 17
  • hiding
  • from paramilitaries, 124
  • from security forces, 54
  • hierarchy of experiences 132-3
  • Hughes, Brendan 59.
  • hunger strikes
  • 57-62
  • 57-62
  • medical intervention, 61-2
  • physical effects of, 59-61
  • identity 96-7
  • illness, mental
  • 46-50
  • 106-10
  • illness, physical
  • epilepsy due to injury, 35-6
  • epilepsy due to injury, 38
  • induced by tragedy, 29
  • induced by tragedy, 70
  • Indian community 87-95
  • informers 27-8
  • injuries
  • Alice Nocher, 11-13
  • from punishment beatings, 126
  • long-term, 34-40
  • INLA [Irish National Liberation Army] 114
  • insecurity 40
  • integration 72
  • internment
  • 21
  • 68
  • interviewees
  • consent, 3
  • consent, 140-1
  • coping strategies, 142-3
  • selection, 2
  • selection, 138-9
  • interviews
  • 1-2
  • 141
  • confidentiality, 142
  • debriefing, 142-3
  • distress in, 141-2
  • feedback, 143
  • intimidation
  • 9-10
  • 46
  • by paramilitaries, 23
  • IRA, Official 23
  • IRA, Provisional
  • 23
  • 124
  • 125
  • 127-9
  • joining procedure, 51-3
  • jail, Crumlin Road 55
  • justice, doubts about
  • 69
  • 100
  • Leylands, Isobel, shot dead 111-13
  • Limavady 72
  • Londonderry 64
  • McAllister, Jolene
  • 111-18
  • death of aunt, 111-13
  • death of aunt, 114
  • death of brother, 114-15
  • death of cousin, 116-17
  • McElwee, Tom 61
  • McGuiness, Bel
  • 119-22
  • death of husband, 119-21
  • McKeown, Lawrence 51-62
  • media
  • interest in 'victims ', 4
  • interest in 'victims ', 136
  • role of, 72
  • memories, displacement of 132
  • mental breakdowns
  • 14
  • 46-50
  • 105
  • 106-10
  • minorities, Indian 87-95
  • minority power 71
  • Monaghan
  • 53
  • bomb, 82-4
  • Morrissey, Paul 103-10
  • murder of father 103-5
  • Newall, Rev Ken 101
  • nightmares
  • 105
  • 111-13
  • 129
  • Nocher, Alice
  • 7-19
  • court case, 13-14
  • death of brother, 7-9
  • death of husband, 14-15
  • shooting, 10-13
  • Northern Ireland
  • O'Neill, Terence, 97
  • Troubles, 133
  • parades
  • 71-2
  • 71-2.
  • and racism, 91
  • Drumcree march, 101
  • Unionist culture, 71
  • view of police, 68
  • paramilitaries 68
  • Parker, Rev Joe, and son Stephen 100
  • peace movements 100-1
  • physical effects
  • 23-4
  • of shock, 12-13
  • police
  • 41
  • Catholic view of, 117
  • Catholic view of, 118
  • Protestant view of, 68
  • Protestant view of, 98
  • searches, 21
  • searches, 71
  • policeman
  • murder, 76-8
  • serious injury, 34-41
  • politics, importance of 101-2
  • prison officer, gun and grenade attack 42-50
  • Prison Officers Association 48
  • prisoners 57
  • property, damage to
  • 67
  • 85
  • 127
  • proximity 132
  • public acknowledgement of loss 6
  • public, lack of awareness of consequences of violence 5
  • punishment beatings
  • 115
  • 118
  • 123-30
  • 123-30
  • punishment shootings 32
  • Race Relations Act
  • 91-2
  • 94
  • racism
  • in England, 87
  • in England, 90
  • increasing, 94-5
  • limited in Northern Ireland, 87
  • limited in Northern Ireland, 90
  • Randalstown, bomb 53
  • Relatives Action Committee 22-3
  • revenge, suffering as motivation for 135
  • riots
  • Belfast, 20
  • Belfast, 98
  • Derry Londonderry, 63
  • Derry Londonderry, 66-7
  • Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
  • 97
  • 99
  • Rutherford, William 96-102
  • Sands, Bobby
  • election, 58-9
  • hunger strike and death, 59
  • searches
  • 21
  • 71
  • sectarian murders 32-3
  • security gates, Londonderry 66
  • Shankill bombing
  • 70
  • 80
  • Shankill Butchers
  • 21
  • 103
  • Shankill Road, riots [1970] 20-1
  • Sinn Fein Centre 127-8
  • soldiers [British]
  • abuse from, 21
  • arrival in Northern Ireland, 21
  • St Patrick 's Training Centre
  • 128
  • 129
  • strength, mental
  • 18
  • 33
  • 70
  • 78
  • 107
  • 110
  • suffering, attitudes to 135-6
  • suicide attempts
  • 107
  • 129
  • support groups
  • 80-1
  • 122
  • Temple, William
  • 63-73
  • son arrested and remanded, 69-70.
  • sons beaten, 67
  • sons beaten, 68-9
  • tension
  • 21
  • 71
  • threats 46
  • tion of history 131
  • truth 4
  • UDA [Ulster Defence Association] 68
  • UDR [Ulster Defence Regiment]formation 51
  • UVF [Ulster Volunteer Force] 33
  • Valente, Margaret
  • 20-33
  • death of brother-in-law, 23-4
  • death of daughter's boyfriend, 31-3
  • death of husband, 24-8
  • death of husband, 30
  • death of sister, 24
  • victims
  • as moral beacons 135-6
  • media interest in, 4
  • media interest in, 136
  • vigilantes, Belfast 21
  • vigils, night, Unity Flats 26
  • Vij, Charlotte
  • 87-95
  • murder of cousin, 92-4
  • murder of grandfather, 87-9
  • wakes 84
  • WAVE [support group] 80-1
  • welfare, professional
  • 37
  • 50
  • Williams, Betty 100
  • Wilson, Gordon 136
  • Workers ' Strike [1974] 91.

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