Dublin's Unitarian church has held a final ceremony, where the names of 3,600 people who died during the Troubles were read aloud.
The annual commemoration, dating back to 2001, is ending because church management said no one has been killed in political violence in Northern Ireland since 2019.
''We started this when the peace process was very very young. And we always said we would finish it when there were no more deaths and when the peace process is established,'' Reverend Bridget Spain said.
Four Unitarian churches in Belfast also held a similar ceremony honouring the victims.
''There were old people, young people, husbands and wives. Every name is a story,'' Reverend Spain said.
''There's an old Persian saying, when your name is still spoken, you are still alive in a way. And that's a way of making them alive for a second or two.''
The ceremony has been praised by relatives as a special way to remember the real people behind the statistics.
Paula Rainey attended for the reading of her father's name.
Sgt Joseph Campbell, a father of eight, was shot dead at Cushendall RUC station in Co Antrim in 1977.
Paula was only 12 years old at the time.
''He was a very quiet man, a very gentle man,'' Ms Rainey recalls. ''We were a very busy house, we ranged in age from 20 to four when he died.''
''It was a difficult time to be in the police in Northern Ireland. Especially when you were a catholic, but he was very well respected in the area and had a certain way of doing his job, which was trying to keep friendly with the locals.''
Ms Rainey said it was a nice way to remember all the dead.
''When they mention the names they are not a Catholic or a Protestant, they weren't in the police or army or terrorist group.
"They are not named or labelled. They are people and it is very important because my pain is no different to anybody else's pain. Hopefully we won't see any more deaths,'' Ms Rainey said.
The last name to be read aloud was Lyra McKee, the journalist who was killed in Derry in 2019.
