Reporting the Troubles : journalists tell their stories of the Northern Ireland conflict / compiled by Deric Henderson and Ivan Little.
Publisher: Newtownards : Blackstaff Press, 2018Description: xviii, 238 pages : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780731797.Subject(s): Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998 | Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998 -- Press coverage | Reporters and reporting -- Northern Ireland -- History -- AnecdotesDDC classification: 941.60824Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941.60824 REP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 016863 |
Foreword / Senator George J. Mitchell -- Introduction / Deric Henderson and Ivan Little -- 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 inspirde me / Alf McCreary -- The day the army missed the IRA's top commander / Chris Ryder -- When Edward Health branded Paisley 'a disloyalist' / Chris Ryder -- 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 terible reminder of La Mon / Wendy Austin -- The day the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten, two teenagers, an elderly woman and eighteen soldiers / Nicholas Winchell -- Gunned down at a football match / Eddie McIlwaine -- The murder of my neighbor, 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 McGuiness 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 Jonston -- 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 hometown / 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 priviliged to do this work / Susan McKay -- An epitaph of sorts / John Mullin -- Good Friday : a day and night like no other / Sister Martina Purdey -- Omagh remembered / Jane Loughrey -- And then there was Omagh / John Coghlan -- A touch of magic as Hume and Trimble collect their Nobel Peace Prize / Deaglán de Bréadún -- Rosemary Nelson's last interview / Steven McCaffery -- Chronicling the lost lives of the Troubles / David McKittrick -- The tears of Martin McGuiness' 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.