The Troubles in popular culture

The Northern Ireland Troubles have been referenced numerous times in popular culture, particularly through films, novels, songs and poems. This article aims to provide a complete list of such works.

Films

• Angel (1982)
• Bloody Sunday (2002)
• Blown Away (1994)
• The Boxer (1997)
• Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
• Cal (1984)
• Children in the Crossfire (1984)
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Dear Sarah (1990)
• The Devil's Own (1997)
• Elephant (Alan Clarke film) (1989)
• An Everlasting Piece (2000)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
• Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
• The General (1998)
• H3 (2001)
• Harry's Game (1982)
• Hidden Agenda (1990)
• Holy Cross (BBC Documentary) (2003)
• Hunger (2008)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• The Informant (1997)
• Johnny Was (2006)
• The Long Good Friday (1980)
• Mickybo and Me (2004)
• My Brother's War (1998)
• Nothing Personal (1995)
• Omagh (2004)
• Omagh the Legacy: Claire and Stephen's Story (1999)
• Patriot Games (1992)
• Patriots (1998)
• A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
• The Railway Station Man (1993)
• Resurrection Man (1997)
• Ronin (1998)
• Shadow Dancer (2012)
• Some Mothers Son (1996)
• Sunday (2002)
• Titanic Town (1998)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Novels

• Joan Lingard's children's series: The Twelfth Day of July (1970), Across the Barricades (1972), Into Exile (1973), A Proper Place (1975), and Hostage to Fortune (1976)
• Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour (1975)
• A Breed of Heroes by Alan Judd
• Cal by Bernard MacLaverty (1983)
• Maura's Angel by Lynne Reid Banks (1984)
• Ourselves Alone by Anne Devlin (1985)
• Patriot Games by Tom Clancy (1987)
• Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman (1994)
• Cycle of Violence by Colin Bateman (1995)
• Belfast Diaries: War as a Way of Life by John Conroy (1995)
• Drink with the Devil by Jack Higgins (1996)
• Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson (1996)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking by Martin McGartland (1997)
• Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe (1998)
• The Bombmaker by Stephen Leather (1999)
• The Marching Season by Daniel Silva (1999)
• Mohammed Maguire by Colin Bateman (2001)
• No Bones by Anna Burns (2001)
• Rogue Element by Terence Strong (1997).
• Stand by Stand by by Chris Ryan
• Trinity by Leon Uris (1976)
• Watchman by Ian Rankin (1988)
• The Watchman by Chris Ryan (2001)

Instrumental compositions

• "Lest we forget" by Robert Candeloro (2006)
• "The Seeming Insanity of Forgiveness" by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald (composer) (2002)

Songs

• "Armalite Rifle" by Gang of Four
• "Alternative Ulster" by Stiff Little Fingers
• "Armagh" by Au Pairs
• "Belfast" by Boney M
• "Belfast" by Orbital
• "Belfast" by Elton John
• "Belfast Child" by Simple Minds
• "Belfast (Penguins and Cats)" by Katie Melua
• "Belfast to Boston (God's Rifle)" by James Taylor
• "Big Decision" by That Petrol Emotion
• "Broken Land" by The Adventures
• "Crimson Days" by Silent Running
• "Don't forget AbOUT us" by Paul J Miles (2008)
• "Drunken Lullabies" by Flogging Molly
• "Each Dollar a Bullet" by Stiff Little Fingers
• "Ether" by Gang Of Four
• "Fly the Flag" by Stiff Little Fingers
• "Forgotten Sons" by Marillion
• "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Paul McCartney
• "Go on Home British Soldiers by Tommy Skelly
• "God Kicks", "Potato Junkie" and "Church of Noise" by Therapy?
• "Hang the IRA" by Skullhead
• "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" by Megadeth
• "The House of Orange" by Stan Rogers on From Fresh Water
• "Invisible Sun" by The Police
• "It's Going To Happen" by The Undertones
• "It's Only Tuesday" by Eric Bogle
• "Kinky [...] Makes the World Go 'Round" by Dead Kennedys
• "Last Night Another Soldier", "Brighton Bomb" and "Soldier" by The Angelic Upstarts
• "Letter from Louise" by The Saw Doctors
• "My Little ArmaLite" by Unknown
• "Northern Industrial Town" by Billy Bragg
• "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello
• "Out in the Fields" by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott
• "Pie Jesu" by Andrew Lloyd Webber
• "What's Left of the Flag" by Flogging Molly
• "Sean O'Farrell" by The Celibate Rifles
• "Shankill Butchers" by The Decemberists
• "Smash the IRA" by Skrewdriver
• "So Many People" by Hubert Kah
• "Soldier" by Harvey Andrews
• "Some Time in New York City" and The Luck of the Irish by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
• "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" by The Pogues
• "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Please", "Peace on Earth" and "North and South of The River" by U2
• "Sunrise" by The Divine Comedy
• "Ten Men Dead" by Blaggers ITA
• "That's Just the Way It Is" by Phil Collins
• "The Greening of Belfast" by Michael Card
• "The Island" by Paul Brady
• "The Men Behind the Wire" by Barleycorn
• "The More I See (The Less I Believe)" by Fun Boy Three
• "There Were Roses" by Tommy SandS
• "The Town I Loved So Well" by Phil Coulter
• "The Troubles" by The Roches
• "The Troubles" by XTC
• "Theme from Harry's Game" by Clannad
• "This Is a Rebel Song" by Sinéad O'Connor
• "Through the barricades" by Spandau Ballet
• "Ulster" by Sham 69
• "White Noise" by Stiff Little Fingers
• "Zombie" by The Cranberries

Poems

References

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