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ARDOYNE: 
THE UNTOLD TRUTH                       

Ardoyne is a small working class nationalist 
community in North Belfast. Its people have 
witnessed some of the worst of the violence of the 
last thirty years, much of it perpetrated 
by British state forces. Ninety-nine people of Ardoyne            
were killed as a result of the conflict between 1969 
and 1998.

With the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, 
the Ardoyne Commemoration Project  began interviewing 
relatives, friends and eye-witnesses about all those who 
had been killed. It looked for photographs of the dead. 
It researched the circumstances of every killing and 
explored the broader political context prevailing at the 
time. Over three hundred interviews were completed. 
This book is the result.

The book commemorates the dead through the voices of 
those who knew them best and those who witnessed the 
terrible events which Ardoyne experienced during the 
various phases of the conflict. It is a remarkable, and at 
times painful, record of a much maligned and marginalised 
community. 

As Seamus Deane writes in the preface, the book is a 
tribute to the resilience of the living. It is what truth sounds 
like ­ difficult to listen to and, for many, impossible to hear. 
'What this book does is to increase the pressure for further    
inquiry, to ask the state, before the world to justify its 
behaviour in Ardoyne. Or even to tell the truth.'

 Published August 2002

 234 x 156mm
 556pp.  

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