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

• The Long Good Friday (1980)
• The Outsider (1980 film) (1980)
• Angel (1982)
• Harry's Game (1982)
• Cal (1984)
• Children in the Crossfire (1984)
• A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
• Elephant (Alan Clarke film) (1989)
• Dear Sarah (1990)
• Hidden Agenda (1990)
• Law & Order - "The Troubles" episode - (1991)
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Patriot Games (1992)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• The Railway Station Man (1993)
• Blown Away (1994)
• The Run of the Country (1995)
• Nothing Personal (1995)
• Some Mothers Son (1996)
• The Devil's Own (1997)
• The Boxer (1997)
• The Informant (1997)
• Resurrection Man (1997)
• The General (1998)
• My Brother's War (1998)
• Ronin (1998)
• Titanic Town (1998)
• Omagh the Legacy: Claire and Stephen's Story (1999)
• Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
• An Everlasting Piece (2000)
• H3 (2001)
• Bloody Sunday (2002)
• Sunday (2002)
• Holy Cross (BBC Documentary) (2003)
• Mickybo and Me (2004)
• Omagh (2004)
• Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
• Johnny Was (2006)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
• Hunger (2008)
• Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
• Shadow Dancer (2012)
• Good Vibrations (2013)
• '71 (2014)

Novels

• The Kevin and Sadie series: The Twelfth Day of July (1970), Across the Barricades (1972), Into Exile (1973), A Proper Place (1975), and Hostage to Fortune (1976) by Joan Lingard
• 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)
• Watchman by Ian Rankin (1988)
• Christ in the Fields, A Fermanagh Trilogy by Eugene McCabe (1993)
• 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)
• Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe (1998)
• The Bombmaker by Stephen Leather (1999)
• The Marching Season by Daniel Silva (1999)
• The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh (2001)
• 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
• The Watchman by Chris Ryan (2001)
• The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle (2010)

Instrumental compositions

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

Songs

See also: Irish rebel music

• "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
• "Black Cab Motorcade" by State Radio
• "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 Sex 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
• "Michael Caine" by Madness (band)
• "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 by John Lennon and Yoko Ono: "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "The Luck of the Irish"
• "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" by The Pogues
• "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Please," "Peace on Earth," "North and South of The River," "Raised By Wolves," and "The Troubles" 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
• "Both Sides of the Story" by Phil Collins
• "God be with you Ireland" by The Cranberries

Poems

Poem	Poet
Ceasefire	Michael Longley
Ballad of Claudy	James Simmons
Belfast Confetti	Ciarán Carson
Casualty	Seamus Heaney
Punishment	Seamus Heaney
There Are Too Many Saviours on My Cross	Dr. T. James

Art

• The Linen Memorial by Lycia Danielle Trouton
• Murals in Northern Ireland

Plays

• A Night in November by Marie Jones
• Bloom of the Diamond Stone by Wilson John Haire
• Did You Hear the One About the Irishman...? by Christina Reid
• In a Little World of Our Own by Gary Mitchell
• Joyriders by Christina Reid
• Remembrance by Graham Reid
• The Flats by John Boyd
• The Freedom of the City by Brian Friel