ABSTRACT
In 1997 then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam appointed Sir Kenneth Bloomfield as Northern Ireland's Victim's Commissioner. Bloomfield's subsequent report, entitled We Will Remember Them, was published in April 1998 to coincide with the adoption of the Agreement. Bloomfield's prose is robust and confident when he stands on the firmer ground of advocating for financial support, resource allocation, psychological care and rehabilitation, and increased access to trauma services for victims and survivors. Bloomfield's Report attempted to grant victims and survivors better access to care, support, and financial aid. In these respects, while its recommendations remain only partially realised it is hard to find fault with its intentions. Here, while Bloomfield clearly resists a purely relativistic stance on victimhood, he seeks to soften this by empathising the shared experience of grief and loss of those left behind. Both Bloomfield and Eames–Bradley also touch briefly on 'storytelling' as a means of creative conflict and memory transformation.
