Publications

UDR Declassified

Shocking exposé of the hidden secrets of the UDR based on a deep dive into declassified British files.

Micheál Smith

In UDR: Declassified, we reveal what the British establishment, the British government and its armed forces knew and had to say about the controversial regiment in recently declassified files.

From its formation in 1970

Fermanagh: From Plantation to Peace Process

Margaret Urwin

This comprehensive history charts the major events that have shaped County Fermanagh from the days of the Ulster Plantation. Margaret Urwin looks particularly at the recent conflict in Fermanagh, detailing every death

The Impact of the Parachute Regiment in Belfast 1970-73

Micheál Smith

“A fine and definitive expose of the full extent of the insidious policies of 'Perfidious Albion' in its own backyard. The deployment in the North of Ireland, of the bullets and brutality of the armed wing of the British

Protestant Migration from the West Bank of Derry / Londonderry 1969-1980

1 March 2018

Dr Ulf Hansson and Dr Helen McLaughlin

Why did members of the Protestant/ Unionist/Loyalist (PUL) community leave the west bank of Derry in their thousands since the late 1960s? The PFC posed this thorny question in a multilingual Political Guide to Derry

Anatomy of a Cover-up

PFC Report into the deaths of Gary English and Jim Brown

PFC Report on the deaths of Gary English & Jim Brown, 19 April 1981

On April 19 the PFC published a report into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Gary English and Jim Brown who were killed when a British army landrover drove into a crowd in Creggan St, Derry, on Easter Sunday

A State in Denial

British collaboration with loyalist paramilitaries

Margaret Urwin

This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, including Cabinet ministers, senior civil

Counter-Gangs

A history of undercover military units in Northern Ireland 1971-1976

Margaret Urwin

In this pamphlet, Margaret Urwin of Justice for the Forgotten presents the results of this research in relation to one key actor in the early Troubles, undercover British Army units such as the Military Reaction Forces

Gerald Donaghey

The truth about the planting of nail bombs on Bloody Sunday

Conal McFeely

Derry’s history; 15 June, 2010, was one of the brightest. When British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted to the House of Commons – and the anxious throng watching in Guildhall Square – that the shootings on Bloody

Lethal Allies

British Collusion in Ireland

Anne Cadwallader

Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and shootings in the counties of Tyrone and Armagh in the 1970s. Four families each lost three relatives; in other cases