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Reporting the Troubles : journalists tell their stories of the Northern Ireland conflict / compiled by Deric Henderson and Ivan Little.
Van Pelt Library DA990.U46 R47 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998.
- Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998--Press coverage.
- Press coverage.
- Northern Ireland.
- Genre:
- essays.
- Essays.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newtownards : Blackstaff Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In Reporting the Troubles sixty-eight renowned journalists tell their stories of working in Northern Ireland during the Troubles - the victims that they have never forgotten, the events that have never left them, and the lasting impact of the experience of working through those years.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Duke Street, Derry, 5 October 1968 / Martin Cowley
- How an ex-B Special owes his life to a lady on the Falls Road / Ray Managh
- The night Paisley said I worked for the Papist Broadcasting Corporation / Martin Bell
- The `honey-trap' killings of three Scottish soldiers / Martin Lindsay
- An Irish Setter, a Palestinian hijacker, Derry and me / Gerald Seymour
- The crews of old / Robin Walsh
- Bloody Sunday / Peter Taylor
- `Get that Irish bitch off the air or someone else will' / Gloria Hunniford
- Uncle Ted / Deric Henderson
- Were the murderers in the room? / Robert Fisk
- The little boy who witnessed an attempt on a neighbour's life / Ian Woods
- The Bloody Friday survivors who inspired me / Alf McCreary
- The day the army missed the IRA's top commander / Chris Ryder
- When Edward Heath branded Paisley'a disloyalist' / Gordon Burns
- How Paisley turned the jeers to cheers for me / Conor O'Clery
- My night with a loyalist drag queen and the `beast from hell' / Sam Smyth
- An almost fatal knockout / Henry McDonald
- The broken spectacles that trapped a Miami Showband killer / Ivan McMichael
- The beginning of 1976 / Paul Clark
- `Why does there have to be bad people in the world? My daddy was good.' / Denis Murray
- Hidden in the ashes - my terrible reminder of La Mon / Wendy Austin
- The day the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten, two teenagers, an elderly woman and eighteen soldiers / Nicholas Witchell
- Gunned down at a football match / Eddie Mcllwaine
- The murder of my neighbour, Robert Bradford MP / Ed Curran
- `Daddy won't get up' - murder under a Christmas tree / Kate Adie
- The dirty little secret and the tears of a cub reporter / Bill Neely
- Taking flight with Margaret Thatcher / Deric Henderson
- The Maze jailbreak / Anne Cadwallader
- The massacre at Darkley - and the nature of certainty / Michael Cairns
- IRA war against border Protestants / John Devine
- Death on my doorstep / Richard Kay
- `We'll get you next time, Campbell' / Jim Campbell
- Martin McGuinness in 1986 / Justine McCarthy
- The Enniskillen Remembrance Day bombing / Denzil McDaniel
- Knocking doors and intruding on grief / Noel Doran
- The lasting impact of the Troubles on my life / Chris Moore
- Taking cover during Michael Stone's attack at Milltown / Jeanie Johnston
- Remembering Jillian Johnston / Derval Fitzsimons
- I still get flashbacks to `the corporals' killings' / Alan Jones
- The Gibraltar shootings: taking on the censors / Alex Thomson
- My brushes with Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles / Eamonn Mallie
- The killing I'll never forget / David Davin-Power
- Sean Graham's, Ormeau Road, 1992 / Ivan Little
- The day the UVF told me, `We bombed Dublin and Monaghan' / Ivan Little
- An Irish reporter in the English pack / Sean O'Neill
- Torment in a country graveyard / Miriam O'Callaghan
- Ten funerals in one working week / John Irvine
- `The safest place to be was on the pitch' / Gerry Moriarty
- The Chinook air tragedy / David Walmsley
- David Trimble - the unlikely peacemaker / Ken Reid
- Clinton's men tried to arrest me under the Christmas lights / Eamonn Holmes
- The five' P O'Neills' who briefed me about the IRA / Brian Rowan
- How Drumcree changed my home town / David Armstrong
- A birthday present for Billy Wright / Noreen Erskine
- George Mitchell - the man who lit up the peace process / Trevor Birney
- We were uniquely privileged to do this work / Susan McKay
- An epitaph of sorts / John Mullin
- Good Friday - a day and night like no other / Sister Martina Purdy
- Omagh remembered / Jane Loughrey
- And then there was Omagh / John Coghlan
- A touch of magic as Hume and Trimble collect their Nobel Peace Prize / Deaglan de Breadun
- Rosemary Nelson's last interview / Steven McCaffery
- Chronicling the lost lives of the Troubles / David McKittrick
- The tears of Martin McGuinness's mother / Katie Hannon
- The murder of Martin O'Hagan / Jim McDowell
- I could see the picture unfold before it happened / Paul Faith
- Bringing Gerard Evans home to his mother / Suzanne Breen
- My meeting with the woman twice widowed by the UVF / Hugh Jordan
- Missing the obvious / Tommie Gorman
- Remembering the victims in the postscript of peace / Gail Walker.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Esther F. Kantrowitz & Lionel Kantrowitz Collection Endowed Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781780731797
- 1780731795
- OCLC:
- 1063684294
- Publisher Number:
- 99992321657
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