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Collection: Unfinished Business: State Killings (collection)
Organisation: Rolston, Bill. (individual compiler)

One account from a collection of personal accounts compiled by Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin. The accounts were given by relatives and friends of people who were killed by state forces in Northern Ireland.

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Title	John Downes, by Brenda Downes (story details)
Description	One account from a collection of personal accounts compiled by Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin. The accounts were given by relatives and friends of people who were killed by state forces in Northern Ireland.
Creator	Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin
Publisher	Beyond the Pale Publications
Date	2000
Relation	Extracts from the book are available on the CAIN Web site: Rolston, Bill., with Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications. http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/docs/rolston00.htm
Format	Text
Language	English
CAIN Links	CAIN: Sutton's Index of Deaths: John Downes

Story Title	John Downes
Story Available	Not on-line. Story available in published book.
Story Format	Text
Story Source	Chapter 8, in: Rolston, Bill., and Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
Interviewee Surname	Downes
Interviewee Forename(s)	Brenda
Interviewee Gender	Female
Birth Country	Northern Ireland
Victim 1	John Downes
Relationship Victim 1	Wife
Status	Civilian
Published Format	Document
Themes/Topics Mentioned	Killing; State Killing
Dates Mentioned	12 August 1984
Specific Deaths Mentioned	John Downes (12 August 1984)

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Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin. (2000). John Downes. Beyond the Pale Publications.
Accounts of the Conflict; Accessed: 12 April 2025 <http://k8s-accounts-01.ulster.ac.uk/repo24/items/show/2901/>

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Title	Unfinished Business: State Killings (collection)
Description	Unfinished Business is a book containing a collection of stories that was compiled and published by Bill Rolston with Mairead Gilmartin.
Creator	Bill Rolston, with Mairead Gilmartin
Subject	Personal accounts related to killings by the state in Northern Ireland during the period of the conflict.
Publisher	Beyond the Pale Publications.
Date	2000
Relation	The collection of stories is contained in the book: Rolston, Bill., with Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
Format	Book
Language	English
Identifier	ISBN 1 900960 09 5

Title	Rolston, Bill. (individual compiler)
Description	Bill Rolston is an Emeritus Professor Of Sociology at Ulster University. He has written extensively about various aspects of the Northern Ireland conflict, including victims, and story-telling. He has also published books containing collections of personal accounts.
Creator	Bill Rolston
Subject	Personal accounts / stories related to the Northern Ireland conflict.
Date	2014
Relation	The CAIN Bibliography contains a list of most of Bill Rolston's publications. His books which contain personal accounts are: Rolston, Bill., with Gilmartin, Mairead. (2000). Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications. Rolston, Bill. (2011). Children of the Revolution: The lives of sons and daughters of activists in Northern Ireland. Derry: Guildhall Press.

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