LibGuides: Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances: Ireland

Ireland

The Disappeared of Northern Ireland describes the missing individuals who were abducted during The Troubles conflict over the span of three decades. There are 16 known cases of missing persons from the Disappeared, 13 of which were claimed to have been carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), while 1 was claimed by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).

Find more information on Ireland's enforced disappearances and human rights:

Amnesty International: Human Rights in Ireland Find articles, research, reports, and information regarding human rights cases in Ireland.
The Disappeared of Northern Ireland: Still Missing The official site of the victims and their families with information on each individual missing person and news regarding the search for the still missing.
Human Rights Watch Report on "The Troubles" (1992) HRW compiled a report on the conflict in Northern Ireland, where almost 3,000 people have lost their lives since 1969 in political violence associated with "The Troubles." Many of the deaths have been children killed by paramilitaries or by security forces. Published in 1992.
Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains The purpose of the Commission is to obtain information which may lead to the location of the remains of victims of paramilitary violence ("The Disappeared") who were murdered and buried in secret arising from the conflict in Northern Ireland.

The Disappeared by Alison Millar and Darragh MacIntyre is a 2013 documentary film that investigates the victims who disappeared in Northern Ireland.

The missing were secretly killed and buried by the Irish Republican Army throughout the period known as the Troubles. MacIntyre reports after visiting and speaking to victims' family members in hopes that it may bring new leads and reinvigoration into the search process. Read more about this film here.