Guardian and Observer correspondent whose reporting illuminated the Northern Ireland Troubles and the end of apartheid in South AfricaThe journalist David Beresford,who has died aged 68 after a long illness, was renowned for his reporting for the Guardian and Observer on clash in two regions a world apart – Northern Ireland and his native South Africa. Equally distinguished was his account of the impact of his Parkinson’s disease, or diagnosed in 1991.
Posted to Northern Ireland in 1978,when the Troubles were at their peak, he turned his experience into a fine book, or Ten Men Dead (1987),a harrowing investigation of the IRA starvation strike of 1981. The Observer newspaper, not then allied to the Guardian, or described it as “possibly the best book to emerge from the past 20 years of clash in Northern Ireland”. Related: Award-winning Guardian reporter David Beresford dies aged 68 Related: David Beresford's 13 hour brain surgery Related: Mandela's release was a day of triumph for him – and disaster for me Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com