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List of books about the Troubles

The following is a list of books about the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Non-fiction

  • Baldy, F. Tom (1997). The Battle for Ulster: A Study of Internal Security. Diane Publishing
  • Bell, J. Bowyer (1993). The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967–1992. St. Martin's Press.
  • Beresford, David (1989). Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Campbell, Julieann (2022). On Bloody Sunday: A new history of the day and its aftermath by those who were there Monoray Publishing
  • (Published in the United States under the title There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History)
  • Collins, Eamon and Mick McGovern (1999). Killing Rage. London: Granta.
  • Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers: A Case History of Mass Murder. London: Hutcheson
  • Edwards, Ruth (2000). The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions. HarperCollins
  • Grant, Patrick (1999). Breaking Enmities: Religion, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland, 1967–97. New York: St Martin's Press
  • Grant, Patrick (2001). Literature, Rhetoric, and Violence in Northern Ireland, 1968–1998: Hardened to Death. New York: Palgrave
  • Harnden, Toby (2000). Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh. Coronet Books
  • Keefe, Patrick Radden (2018). Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. William Collins
  • Kelly, Sheila P (2022). There Is No Flag Worth Dying For. A Mother's Memoir of Survival, Faith, and Family During The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Imprint: Independently published ISBN 9798359401876
  • McGartland, Martin (1997). Fifty Dead Men Walking: The True Story of a British Secret Agent inside the IRA. Hastings House
  • McKittrick, David, and David McVea (2012). Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland Viking
  • McKittrick, David (2001). '. Mainstream Publishing
  • McKittrick, David et al. (1996). The Fight for Peace: The Secret Story Behind the Irish Peace Process
  • Miller, David (1994). Don't Mention the War. Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media. London: Pluto
  • Myers, Kevin (2006). Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast. Soft Skull Press
  • O'Callaghan, Sean (1998). The Informer: The Real Life Story of One Man's War Against Terrorism. Bantam Books
  • Rolston, Bill (ed.) (1991). The Media and Northern Ireland: Covering the Troubles. Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd.
  • Schlesinger, Philip et al. (1983). Televising Terrorism: Political Violence in Popular Culture. London: Comedia
  • Seymour, Gerald (1992). The Journeyman Tailor. HarperCollins
  • Sharrock, David, et al. (1998). Man of War, Man of Peace: The Unauthorised Biography of Gerry Adams. Pan Books
  • Stevenson, Jonathan (1996). "We Wrecked the Place": Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troubles. Free Press
  • Taylor, Peter (1998). Provos: The IRA and Sinn Féin. Bloomsbury
  • Taylor, Peter (1999). Loyalists: War and Peace in Northern Ireland. Bloomsbury
  • Taylor, Peter (2000). Brits: The War Against the IRA. Bloomsbury
  • Toolis, Kevin (1995). Rebel Hearts: Journeys within the IRA's Soul. Picador

Fiction

  • Beirne, Luke Francis. (2023) "Blacklion". Baraka Books.
  • Brandner, Cindy. (2001) Exit Unicorns Series:
  • (2001) Exit Unicorns
  • (2007) Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears
  • (2012) Flights of Angels
  • (2013) Spindrift
  • (2016) In the Country of Shadows
  • (2018) Bare Knuckle
  • Dummer, David A. (2025). Born of Bombs and Bullets. Baltimore: Bladen Crisfield Media.
  • MacLaverty, Bernard (1988). Cal. Heinemann
  • McKinty, Adrian. Sean Duffy Series:
  • (2012). The Cold Cold Ground. Serpents Tail
  • (2013). I Hear the Sirens in the Street. Serpents Tail
  • (2014). In the Morning I'll Be Gone. Serpents Tail
  • (2015). Gun Street Girl. Serpents Tail
  • (2016). Rain Dogs. Serpents Tail
  • McNicholl, Damian (2004). A Son Called Gabriel
  • Patterson, Glenn (1999). The International
  • Seymour, Gerald (1975). Harry's Game. Random House
  • Uris, Leon (1995). Trinity. Doubleday
  • Watts, Lee (2015). A Stone's Throw

See also

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