DUBLIN (AP) — The names of 3,700 dead from Northern Ireland’s conflict were read aloud in a Dublin church on the 14th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement, an annual ceremony designed to underscore the terrible scope of lives lost.

The Unitarian Church beside the capital’s central park remembers the dead each Good Friday as ministers, congregation members and others take turns reading all names of those killed during the past 46 years of bloodshed over the British territory. The list includes about 250 people killed in the Republic of Ireland and in England, chiefly by the Irish Republican Army, as well as 18 in continental Europe.

Paramilitary cease- fires that preceded the Good Friday accord of 1998 have abated the violence, but IRA splinter groups still mount occasional bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland that create new victims each year. The dissidents seek to reverse the peace deal’s key achievements: a stable Catholic- Protestant government in Belfast, cross-community support for the police, and the 2005 demise of the major IRA faction, the Provisional IRA.

Today’s list of victims was read alphabetically, about 20 names per minute, over the course of three hours. One of the organizers, Andy Pollak, said it was crucial for all of Ireland to remember how the conflict created victims of every age, in every walk of life.

“All human life and death is in this mournful list,” said Pollak, who directs the Centre for Cross Border Studies.