18 NEW PUBLICATIONS Remembering children of the Troubles


Joe Duffy, Freya McClements, and former president, Mary McAleese, at the Dublin launch of ‘Children of the Troubles’.


The new book, ‘Children of the Troubles: The Untold Story of the Children Killed in the Northern Ireland Conflict’, remembers the lives of all 186 children whose lives were cut short in those years. The book, by RTÉ broadcaster and ‘Liveline’


host Joe Duffy and Freya McClements, Northern Correspondent for The Irish Times, was based on original interviews with almost 100 families, as well as extensive archival research. It was launched last month at events in Dublin, Belfast, and Derry.


In her remarks at the Dublin launch, former


president, Mary McAleese, said Joe and Freya have honored the children, respected them, and deeply loved them in the book.


She said ‘Children of the Troubles’ is a difficult


read, but we need to read it, “to remind ourselves over and over and over of the outrageous cost of this peace we enjoy, that it is priceless, that it is as vulnerable as these children were and we have to protect and defend it for them and the innocent children of


today who are entitled to have their lives sustained by peace and not interrupted permanently by the death culture of conflict. “Let their stories be heard in Westminster especially this week, for dead though they are, these children’s lives are invested in the Good Friday Agreement and in all the good it has wrought, all the deaths it has avoided, all the healthy relationships it has promoted and all the stable future it has let in,” she said. “We hope their memory will help the reality check and the compromise needed at this time of intense dialogue between the UK and the EU which we pray will become an agreement that will hold.” ‘Children of the Troubles’ recounts the


previously untold story of Northern Ireland's lost children -- and those who died in the Republic, the UK and as far afield as West Germany -- and the lives that might have been. Published in hardback by Hachette Ireland,


‘Children of the Troubles’ was recently shortlisted for TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year award in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2019.


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