Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict, Deric Henderson, Ivan Little (eds.)

Abstract

Reporting the Troubles is the latest addition to a number of collections of testimonial narratives, both a genre and a practice that developed in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 in Northern Ireland. These publications participate in the drawn-out process of dealing with the past in which acknowledging and remembering the human cost of a protracted conflict is central as well as the search for “truth and justice” in so-called cold cases. The practice of gathering people’s pe...