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- Ivor Bell ruling may jeopardise future Troubles prosecutions
- Ivor Bell case: IRA totally wrong to have shot and secretly buried’ disappeared victims, Gerry Adams told court
- The Troubles: Former IRA man Ivor Bell cleared of Jean McConville charges
- Judgement: Application to Exclude the Boston Tapes Evidence
- Ivor Bell found not guilty of soliciting murder of Jean McConville
- Ivor Bell Found Not Guilty of Soliciting Jean McConville Murder
- Bell found not guilty of encouraging Adams to murder McConville
- Ex-IRA man’s case over Boston College tapes given supreme court hearing
- PRESS RELEASE – The Boston College Tapes case to be heard by the UK Supreme Court
- Boston tapes: Ex-IRA man to take case to Supreme Court
- Ivor Bell unfit to stand criminal trial over Jean McConville death
- McIntyre taking Boston Tapes battle to European Human Rights court
- Ed Moloney Statement On Belfast High Court Judgement In Anthony McIntyre Case
- Summary of Judgement, Boston Tapes Application
- Farcical High Court Decision Backs PSNI Farce
- Boston Tapes: Ex-IRA man loses fight over secret tapes
- Attempt to access former IRA man’s Boston College tapes ‘replete with errors’ court told
- Why our oral history isn’t worth the paper it’s written on if Boston College case succeeds
- Boston Tapes: Deadline set in ex-IRA man Anthony McIntyre case
- Boston College Tapes: Anthony McIntyre seeking to cross-examine police
- Ex-Provo in Boston tapes row can examine PPS files
- Ex-IRA man Anthony McIntyre seeks disclosure of US-UK legal correspondence
- Cases Tied to Belfast Project Stall in Court
- Republican charged over death of Jean McConville has dementia, court told
- Former IRA man clears hurdle in legal battle over Boston College tapes
- Veteran republican charged in connection with Jean McConville’s murder may not be fit to stand trial
- The Belfast Project, Snap #722 – Blood Oath
- Paramilitary history project is suspended
- Jean McConville murder: Veteran republican Ivor Bell to stand trial
- Jean McConville, Ivor Bell, and the Denouement that Never Comes
- Judgment reserved on Jean McConville trial challenge
- Trial decision due in case of republican charged with aiding McConville murder
- Boston College ‘misled’ paramilitaries over tapes confidentiality
- The PSNI, PPS, US DoJ and Boston College: A Long Game of Blindfolded Darts
- Ex-IRA man denies bomb attack in new Boston College twist
- Challenge against Boston College evidence in Jean McConville case
- Former IRA man McIntyre being investigated over six alleged offences
- Ex-IRA man interviewed by Boston College investigated by PSNI
- Boston Tapes: Police may seek immunity over interviews
- Ulster loyalist’s murder case ‘cynical attempt’ to protect police, court told
- Loyalist in wheelchair charged with Troubles murders released on bail
- Boston College seeks to quash application for Anthony McIntyre interviews
- Evidence from US witness sought in Jean McConville case
- Boston College tapes: Police bid for access to former IRA man’s interviews just ‘fishing expedition’, court hears
- Belfast Project Protection of Research Letter From American Sociological Association Presidents
- Boston College opposes legal moves to seize IRA tapes
- Boston College challenges tape subpoena
- Police in legal push for Boston College tapes of ex-Provo McIntyre
- What the Anthony McIntyre Subpoena is Not
- Boston College ordered by US court to hand over IRA tapes
- The PSNI aka Keystone Kops: Stumbling Back to Boston
- Boston College subpoenaed for Anthony McIntyre interviews
- US Authorities Subpoena Anthony McIntyre’s Boston College Oral History Archive on Behalf of British
- Boston Tapes: Shameful Prosecutorial Malfeasance In Belfast
- Jean McConville case dragging on
- Boston College Oral History Project Faces Ongoing Legal Issues
- Persecuted, unrepresented.. why loyalists feel they are backed into a corner
- ‘We’re being hunted like dogs while Provos get their letters of comfort’
- Senior loyalists: We couldn’t have sold ’94 ceasefire if we knew what we know now
- Boston Tapes Lead Researcher Comments On Winston Rea Case
- Winston ‘Winkie’ Rea: Police win right to hear Boston tapes: battle moves to Supreme Court
- Boston College: PSNI win access to Winston Rea’s interviews – but tapes still to remain under lock and key
- Boston tapes will not be held in US Consulate in Belfast
- Winston Rea Boston College tapes to be stored at Belfast court
- Boston College tapes: Winston Rea’s interviews to be flown back from America but police must not examine contents
- Policing Politics: Dealing with the Past an Ongoing PSNI Train Wreck
- PUP Leader Billy Hutchinson: ‘[Barra] McGrory sabotages efforts to ‘deal with the past’
- Irish News Refuses To Publish Letter Exposing Another Allison Morris Blooper
- Sunday World: Detectives think ‘Winky’ Rea paid £40,00 for head of Frankie Curry
- Loyalist’s Boston tapes handover halted
- Boston College Project: Winston Rea wins PSNI restraining order
- Boston College ordered to turn over Northern Ireland conflict research
- ‘An example of those who fought the war and started to build the peace’
- Police to hear what top loyalist told Boston interviewers
- Boston College’s Belfast Project Lands in Court—Again
- Former Loyalist prisoner accuses police of going on “fishing exercise”
- Boston College tapes: Winston Rea loses legal challenge
- Boston College Project: Winston Rea loses legal challenge
- Sleepwalking to the past
- Police seek loyalist’s Boston College tapes in murder, attempted murder and robbery investigation
- Questions Of ‘The Utmost Gravity’ For The PSNI And Prosecution Service
- Boston College Project: Winston Rea ‘investigated over serious offences’
- Boston College tapes: Truth-recovery pie in the sky as long as shadow of arrest looms
- Secret Legal Process at Work in Boston College Case
- Former Irish Prisoner Secures Interim Injunction On Belfast Project Materials
- New Belfast Project Subpoena(s)
- News Letter Special on BOSTON TAPES: I was man on ground, says McIntyre
- News Letter Special on BOSTON TAPES: Professor takes college to task over saga
- News Letter Special on BOSTON TAPES: Where are the interviews now?
- News Letter Special on News Letter Special on BOSTON TAPES: Victims speak on saga
- News Letter Special on BOSTON TAPES: College says no-one can question project intention
- News Letter Special on BOSTON TAPES: Timeline of the project
- The Belfast Project and the Dangers of the Subpoena Power
- Storey arrest ‘based on information given to oral history project’
- Boston Tapes Read to Storey
- Jean McConville murder: 73-year-old man who was arrested is released
- Ivor Bell: Voice analyst called in for Jean McConville murder case
- Man, 73, arrested over Jean McConville murder in 1972
- The Belfast Project That Students Forgot
- Say Anything: The DOJ Comes Clean on Retribution
- Dealing with the Future by Dealing with the Past: Chief Constable
- A Parody of a Satire of a Farce
- Jean McConville murder: IRA suspect’s lawyer slams Boston College ‘evidence’
- The Urgent Search for Justice in a 1972 Murder, Cont
- Ed Moloney: Boston College and Me
- Why The Deafening Media Silence On Suspected Bugging Of McIntyre Family?
- “Narrative” – Boston College’s Jack Dunn and the Subpoena Case
- Clash of Culture: Response to Boston College’s Jack Dunn
- O’Malley Confirmation Hearing: Astoundingly Obtuse U.S. Policy Vision
- TRANSCRIPT: Boston Public Radio interviews Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- TRANSCRIPT: Boston Public Radio interviews Boston College Spokesman Jack Dunn
- TRANSCRIPT: Boston Public Radio interview with Kevin Cullen
- CHRIS BRAY: PSNI Theatre of Shadows
- VIDEO: Back From Northern Ireland, Columnist Kevin Cullen’s Take On Lingering Troubles
- Belfast to Boston: Oral History Goes Awry
- Old Wounds & Oral History: The Aftermath of the Belfast Project
- The ‘Boston College Tapes’ Document Northern Ireland’s Murderous Past
- In Belfast, the gunmen, the shadows, the damage done: BC exercise in idealism reopened old wounds
- No Grounds for Citing SAA
- 1st Response to FOI Request: Belfast Project Documents (DOJ-OIA)
- Urgent Murder Investigation (cont.)
- FOI Request: Belfast Project Documents (DOJ-OIA)
- THE Letters: Belfast Project aftermath
- GUARDIAN: Call for investigation of alleged Boston College-IRA archive spying
- Vortex of violence ensnared innocents such as Irish priest
- When Research Meets Politics: Lessons from Boston College’s Belfast Oral History Project
- When the police call, researchers require steadfast backup
- News of Interest: Lurgan dissident republican ‘finds bugs in his car’
- Justice on the Cheap at the Cost of History
- Confidential info threatened, but technology can help
- Ivor Bell: ‘Boston Project ‘full of inaccuracies’ says lawyer
- Who’s Quashing Who?: The Battle Between Scholars and Subpoenas
- Promises and their limitations
- Court and controversy: Garrett in the dock
- Place-hacker Bradley Garrett: research at the edge of the law
- Belfast Project aftermath: the legal implications
- Oral history: where next after the Belfast Project?
- Judge Says He Will Not Unseal Records of Boston College’s Belfast Project
- Judge won’t unseal records in Belfast Project case
- DOJ and BC briefs re: NBC Request for Belfast Project Interviews
- The Arrest of Gerry Adams
- Saint Martin de Process
- Why an amnesty is needed in the North
- Hunger strike episode important in explaining reaction to Boston College project
- Adams episode sounds warning on peace process
- Chris Bray: BC, NBC, and the PSNI
- Rep. King: ‘I have every reason to believe Gerry Adams’
- Adams in DC: Confirmed, and Still Ignored
- Bias, Bona Fides, & the Boston Tapes: An Interview with Anthony McIntyre
- Adams in Washington DC: Blackout
- Irish tabloid faces questions over report on Boston College tapes family
- Dáil Questions: Irish Government Protection of Irish History
- Dáil Questions: In view of Boston College’s failure to protect its work…
- TRANSCRIPT: Digging Too Deep? NBC News Seeks ‘Belfast Tapes’
- We mustn’t turn historians into informers
- Chris Bray Commentary: Do institutions learn?
- Who at BC will be held accountable for Belfast Project fiasco?
- TRANSCRIPT: The Fall Out from the Boston College Tapes Continues
- Surveillance claims over Boston College tapes reported to Irish police
- Surveillance Complaint
- Boston College researcher’s wife makes surveillance complaint
- Northern Ireland seeks all Belfast Project interviews
- Northern Irish Police Seek Entire Oral-History Archive at Boston College
- Moloney Statement On PSNI Threat To Boston Archive
- TRANSCRIPT: BBC Radio Ulster interviews Dr. Anthony McIntyre about PSNI announcement about a fresh pursuit of the Boston College tapes
- BREAKING: PSNI bid to obtain all material held by Boston College
- Gerry Adams: Arrested by Northern Ireland’s past
- Oral History Society Statement on the Boston College Belfast Project, May 2014
- Source Protection Be Damned: Just Get a Scoop
- Boston College tapes: US network NBC launches legal bid
- NBC News Seeks Subpoenaed Interviews From Boston Court
- Arrest of Adams: New Guard, Old Methods
- Research Ethics – Confidentiality and Impact of Boston College’s Decisions
- Deprived by the Actions of Malevolent Forces
- Adams tries to gag Independent
- Boston College reflects on missteps in Northern Ireland project
- Culture Shock: Belfast Project is a crisis in Irish academia
- #AskUKUS Twitter Q&A
- SUNDAY WORLD: The Boston Time Bomb
- PODCAST: The IRA, the Boston College Tapes and Who Tells the Past?
- ‘Right to remember past’ as it happened
- IRA Interviewee: Boston College Has Not Lived Up to the Declarations it Made
- An American oral history project makes us fear for our lives, say former IRA members
- ‘Boston College Touts’ Threat Discussed in Dáil Éireann
- Boston College to be sued by republicans over Troubles tapes
- DETAILS: Ex-IRA prisoner Richard O’Rawe: I’ll sue Boston College for handing over tapes
- Jean McConville: The murder still haunting republicans after 42 years
- Boston College tapes: Archive that turned into a can of worms
- Ex-IRA prisoner to sue Boston College over tape
- Gerry Adams Arrest ‘A Wake-Up Call’ For Oral Historians
- News of Interest: Belfast and Boston named ‘sister cities’
- Adams: My arrest will help Sinn Fein at polls
- Bobby Storey, Martin McGuinness at Adams Arrest/Sinn Fein Election Rally, West Belfast
- Adams can’t stay in character as a statesman for long
- How the Adams arrest threatens academic freedom
- The closure of the Boston College Troubles archive is historical loss
- Historians fear Boston tapes controversy will damage research into the Troubles
- The real threat to peace in Northern Ireland
- Jean McConville’s daughter ‘shattered’ but will take civil action against Gerry Adams
- In-depth interview: Anthony McIntyre and the Boston Tapes
- CBC Radio: As It Happens – Boston College Project: former IRA fighter
- NPR: Gerry Adams’ Arrest Calls Educational Privacy Into Question
- Boston College tapes: McIntyre gave interview to archive
- BBC Spotlight: Not Going Away
- Carmen Ortiz In The Spotlight, Under Fire
- Anthony McIntyre Responds to Sinn Fein Criticism
- Irish Times: The returning of the Boston tapes
- TRANSCRIPT: Marian Finucane Show: Boston College Tapes
- Boston College History Department Had No Ties to Belfast Project
- Key figures ‘upping the ante’ over Boston College tapes
- Gerry Adams release will not make fallout go away, you know
- TRANSCRIPT: Boston Public Radio Interview Anthony McIntyre and Carrie Twomey
- The Men Will Talk to Me: Oral History of IRA launched by Taoiseach
- Hate campaign against me has ratcheted up since Adams arrest, says IRA historian
- Adams detention could hasten civil action
- BC’s Oral History Of ‘The Troubles’ Spurred Arrest Of Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams
- The history project behind Gerry Adams’s arrest
- Adams arrest ‘not political policing’
- Retribution Retards Revelation
- ‘I Am Innocent’: Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams Questioned Over Murder
- Gerry Adams arrest: surrender of interview tapes has dealt ‘blow’ to research
- DUP: No role for Sinn Fein in writing story of Troubles
- Gerry Adams arrested: Jean McConville’s son says IRA will kill him if he names mother’s killers
- Sinn Fein Boss Gerry Adams Wanted This Murder Bust
- The Podium: The Belfast Tapes by Thomas P. O’Neill III
- Arrest Adams now for McConville murder says republican ex-prisoner
- Recasting History: Boston College case has profound questions for historians
- Why have the Boston College tapes and the death of Mrs Jean McConville become entwined?
- NEWS OF INTEREST: Facing His Torturer as Spain Confronts Its Past
- Irish terrorist murders ‘should be left unsolved’; Historic banquet at Windsor, but in Belfast there’s still a bitter taste
- Arrest Made In McConville Murder Case Links To BC Belfast Project
- Dealing with the past? The devil will be in the details
- TRANSCRIPT: Belfast Media’s Abysmal Reporting
- Bell gets bail as PSNI postpone Adams response
- TRANSCRIPT: Michael Reade Show @LMFMRADIO Anthony McIntyre responds to Deputy Gerry Adams comments on Boston College Tapes
- Sinn Fein councillor brands Boston College archive a ‘touting programme’ on Twitter
- TRANSCRIPT: The arrest of Ivor Bell and oral history archive The Belfast Project
- Troubles echo in IRA trial
- Anthony McIntyre Response to Gerry Adams’ Comments on Boston College’s Belfast Project
- Adams criticises Boston Oral History Project
- Police want to quiz writer and former IRA man Anthony McIntyre over his interviews about killing
- PSNI ‘still interested’ in Gerry Adams’ alleged role in McConville killing
- TUV calls for more Boston tapes project arrests
- TRANSCRIPT: Arrest of Ivor Bell and the Boston College Tapes
- Case against McConville accused based on US interviews
- Boston College tapes led to charge over McConville’s disappearance
- Reeling in the truth
- Belfast Project: No lawyers, few historians (and no IRB)
- Anthony McIntyre: Against the Dying of the Light
- Anthony McIntyre Response to Boston College Spokesman’s NPR Comments
- EMAIL: Embarrassed for Jack Dunn… Yet Again
- Author’s accepted manuscript: ‘Say Nothing’
- CONFIDENTIAL: 2002 Burns Belfast Project Report
- News of Interest: Researcher-participant confidentiality now a formal concept in Canadian law
- ‘Say nothing’: silenced records and the Boston College subpoenas
- Ed Moloney and NPR
- TRANSCRIPT: The Belfast Project and the Future of Oral History Projects, On the Media
- Authors to sue Boston College over terror tape ‘guarantees’
- Boston College: Project Director and Researchers Statement
- Chronicle Review: Secrets From Belfast
- Chronicle Review: Who Killed Jean McConville?
- News of Interest: Magnotta case precedent setter: “Researcher-participant confidentiality privilege” formally recognized
- VICE: The Peace Process Is A Sham
- Early Retirement of head of PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET)
- First Circuit Ruling on US Attorney Petition for Rehearing: Denied
- Case Around Belfast Tapes Continues
- McConville family to sue Baggott and MOD
- McConville family to sue police and MoD
- Boston College Faculty Demand Answers About Belfast Project
- Opposition of Boston College to Government’s Petition for Panel Rehearing
- The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of the British State
- Safe for Research? Boston College: The Truth Behind The Lost Contracts
- Where blame lies over lost Boston tape names
- McConvilles to mount civil case in bid for justice
- GOVERNMENT’S REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION OF THE COURT’S OPINION (Petition for Panel Rehearing)
- Belfast Project update: Decision by US is next step
- Boston College Belfast Project Key Procedure
- Moloney’s bizarre accusations sad to witness
- Boston tapes name gaffe: Confessions may be useless after identity codes lost
- Boston College Belfast Project IRA Tapes: Row Over Interviewee Identities
- Latest on Boston College Tapes: Radio Free Eireann interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- Boston College Loses Contracts, Throwing Jean McConville Probe Into Disarray
- Boston tapes useless in tracing Jean McConville’s IRA murderers
- Value of Boston College tapes diminished by anonymous voices
- Moloney and McIntyre seek access to British regiment’s war diaries
- Sinn Fein’s dismissal of Boston College tapes is utter hypocrisy
- Could Boston interview tapes spell trouble for Adams?
- O’Loan: Release Army’s Belfast war diaries
- Could British war diaries help solve the Jean McConville murder?
- Adams faces quiz over murder of McConville
- Call for British government to release war diaries relating to Jean McConville’s murder
- FOI Request for British Archive War Diaries
- History Ireland: Boston College tapes: PSNI to get access to Dolours Price interviews
- ‘Boston tape’ claims should give us pause
- Sen. Menendez asks Secretary of State for help in release of IRA interviews
- Dáil Questions: Data Protection & the Boston College Case; HET jurisdiction
- Boston saga proves law trumps academic works
- NEW US ENVOY ON NI’S PAST MEANS BOSTON COLLEGE CASE MUST BE SUSPENDED
- Robert Menendez voices strong opposition to IRA Boston College tapes handover
- Release of Boston College tapes could threaten Northern Irish peace – US senator
- Adams again insists he had no involvement in killing of Jean McConville
- Adams denies involvement in McConville murder
- TRANSCRIPT: Dáil Debate on Boston College tapes, Gerry Adams & Jean McConville
- Taoiseach challenges Gerry Adams to make statement on Jean McConville disappearance
- Gerry Adams: I played no part in the abduction and killing of Jean McConville
- Adams denies involvement in McConville disappearance
- Senator intervenes in Boston tapes case
- Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Menendez letter to Secretary of State Kerry
- Menendez Fires Volley Across British Bows On Boston College Archive
- US Senator warns Boston Tapes could threaten NI peace
- SF leader’s version of past is insulting nonsense
- NI police chief to meet head of HET after report criticises team’s work
- Pressure on Adams grows as secret tapes handed to police
- Dolours Price tape handed over to police
- Dealing with the past before it deals with us
- Where is the big idea to deal with a troubled past?
- PSNI receive Dolours Price interviews
- PSNI confirm securing Boston College tapes on Jean McConville’s murder
- Revealed: Secret murder tapes that ‘name’ Gerry Adams over IRA execution of mother accused of passing information to British
- Crisis In Historical Enquiries Team Probe Of NI’s Past Shows Need For A Fresh Start And An End To Boston College Probe
- Adams appeals for help in finding IRA ‘disappeared’
- IRA Disappeared victim Jean McConville’s murder should be treated as a “war crime”
- ‘Treat mother’s death as war crime’
- Jean McConville murder: Son says IRA killers should stand trial for war crimes
- Federal Court Rules that Subpoenas are Its Domain, Boston College Still Directed to Comply
- President Obama’s visit to North comes at a critical time for peace process
- LETTER: Senator Menendez told Congressional Hearing Needed into Eric Holder’s UK MLAT Subpoenas
- LETTER: Secretary of State John Kerry Asked to Intervene on Boston College Subpoenas
- LETTER: Irish American Groups Against Subpoenas Want Action From Eric Holder
- Irish American Groups Fighting BC Subpoenas Seek Action from Holder, Kerry, and Menendez
- Court Releases Only Some BC Interviews from ‘Belfast Project’
- Britain to See Less of Irish Rebel Interviews
- Chris Bray: Boston College Wins Victory For Recovering Ground Given Up
- A Partial Win For Boston College And Academic Freedom
- Court of Appeals says Boston College must release 11 confidential interviews with former IRA members
- Living History: The Boston College Case and the SPADs Bill
- Government’s Motion to Extend the Time To File a Petition for Rehearing
- Transcript: Appeals court restricts release of Boston College tapes: RTE interview with Anthony McIntyre
- College only has to hand over interview segments
- First Circuit Trims Subpoenas of College’s IRA Interviews
- Appeals Court ruling in BC’s ‘Belfast Project’ case termed ‘significant victory’ for univesity
- Win for Oral History
- PSNI preparing to seek possession of some Boston College tapes
- AP, Fox News not isolated First Amendment controversies for DOJ
- Boston College Wins a Victory in Legal Fight Over Oral-History Records
- Boston College claim a victory in court battle over Belfast Project
- First Circuit Court Rules On Belfast Project
- US court reduces number of Boston College tapes to be handed to PSNI
- Major victory for BC in court battle over Belfast Project
- US court rules McConville tapes must be handed over to PSNI
- Boston Appeal Court Drastically Restricts Handover From Boston College Archive
- Disclosure of BC interviews reversed in part
- News of Interest: Bias’ claim over killings probe
- Eric Holder, Boston College & the Irish Peace Process
- Boston College, The AP & James Rosen Cases And The Wikileaks Connection
- News of Interest: DPP issues ‘Call to tackle historic cases issue’
- PSNI confirms fresh move to obtain Boston College transcripts
- Boston College tapes: PSNI to get access to Dolours Price interviews
- Belfast Project: Boston Prosecuting Irish Politics
- News of Interest: Amnesty International says Northern Ireland’s authorities have failed to deal with legacy of the past
- News of Interest: Northern peace process a stalemate between enemies who loathe each other
- IRA recordings on McConville death ‘may bring about Adams’ downfall’
- DOJ’s Assault on 1st Amendment and Northern Ireland’s Peace
- PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott on Boston College Belfast Project Tapes
- Micheál Martin Questions Taoiseach Enda Kenny on Boston College Archives Case (March, 2013)
- Fran McNulty reports on further developments to the Boston College Belfast Project
- TRANSCRIPT: IRA DOCUMENTS – CBC Radio’s As It Happens interview with Ed Moloney
- Irish groups vow to fight Boston College IRA interviews fight to stop NI police access
- SCOTUS Denies Cert. in Boston College IRA Subpoena Case
- Supreme Court Rejects Belfast Project Appeal
- Police to examine Boston College recordings
- Irish Groups Vow to Continue Fight Over British Subpoenas of Boston College Archives
- ‘Secret’ records of IRA bomber Dolours Price to be released
- US Supreme Court acts on IRA Troubles documents
- Moloney and McIntyre: Political Fight Continues
- Court rejects appeal over secret IRA tapes
- PSNI to access Boston College IRA tapes
- Price interviews may be released after US ruling
- Boston College project: PSNI get Dolours Price interviews access
- Supreme Court declines Northern Ireland subpoena dispute
- Moloney v. United States Petition Denied
- Archives Beyond the Pale: Negotiating Legal and Ethical Entanglements after the Belfast Project
- ‘Twould be an Honor to Have Archival Privilege
- Subpoena of Data Provided by Research Participants under Confidentiality Agreement Raises Concerns
- SCOTUSblog Petition of the Day: Moloney v. United States
- Case on IRA Troubles escalates in US Supreme Court
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman Menendez to Secretary of State Kerry: Do Not Undermine US Interest in Progress
- Congressman Brady writes Kerry and Holder on Boston College subpoenas
- News of Interest: Canadian Academics Strongly Defend Research Confidentiality, Call for University Support of Researchers
- Irish American Groups Push President Obama on BC Subpoenas
- The Betrayal of Research Confidentiality in British Sociology
- “Do the right thing”, Irish American Coalition asks Secretary of State Kerry
- Irish American Coalition to House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Hold Hearings Now
- Irish American Coalition letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Menendez: Congressional Hearings Needed Now
- Motion to Defer Consideration of Petition for Writ of Certiorari
- Smoldering Embers in Belfast May Soon Reach US Justices
- The Belfast Project: An Archival Study
- Lawyers Appeal to Attorney General Holder on Boston College subpoena case
- Dáil Questions, Boston College Archives – Martin to Gilmore
- Sinn Fein leader in SouthCoast with vow of non-violence
- Anthony McIntyre response to SAA Discussion of Boston College/IRA Oral History Case
- SAA: Discussion of Boston College/IRA Oral History Case – Ed Moloney Response
- Ireland’s peace not yet complete
- Who Can Obtain Access to Research Data? Protecting Research Data Against Compelled Disclosure
- Archive Speaker Series Today: “The Past That Has Yet to Pass: Archives and The Belfast Project”
- Boston College Supreme Court case: Brief for the United States in Opposition
- Upcoming SCoSAA Event on Boston College Subpoena case at Simmons
- SAA: Discussion of the Boston College/IRA Oral History Situation
- Boston College Oral History Project to be Focus of Spring Archives Speaker Series
- Georgetown Law Library: Should a legal right to “archival privilege” be established?
- Calling Privilege a Right is Just Plain Wrong
- Should a legal right to “archival privilege” be established?
- The Belfast Case: Information for SAA Members
- No Sanctuary in the Ivory Tower
- Reply of Boston College to Government’s Response to Motion to Dismiss Appeal as Moot
- Leaders renew assault against BC subpoenas
- Moloney & McIntyre on US Government’s Decision To Pursue BC Archive Despite Death Of Dolours Price
- Officials still seek BC tapes on IRA
- Government’s Opposition to Boston College’s Motion to Dismiss
- Irish American Coalition Appeal to Kerry & Menendez: British Subpoenas Threaten US
- Irish American Coalition Asks for Senate Hearing – Letter to Reid
- TRANSCRIPT: Belfast Project Boston College tapes “moral reflection on the consequences of war”
- US Foreign Policy: How Secretary Kerry Can Make A Mission Out of A Mess
- Tying up the loose ends of ‘the Troubles’
- Anthony McIntyre: Belfast Project “an invitation to engage in deep moral reflection on the consequences of war”
- Irish American Groups Seek Voice of Boston College President in Opposing Holder Subpoenas
- University Files To Close Belfast Project Case
- Boston College moves that the Court vacate the District Court’s January 20, 2012, Findings and Order and dismiss appeal as moot
- Death of Dolours could be a major game-changer
- McIntyre wants Belfast Project tapes destroyed
- Transcript: Fran McNulty speaks to Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre on what is next for the Boston College Archives
- Radio Free Eireann interview with Anthony McIntyre and Ed Moloney: The Death of Dolours Price
- Dolours Price, Defiant I.R.A. Bomber, Dies at 61
- The Nightmare From Which We Try To Awaken
- The Death of a Case
- Statement by Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre on the death of Dolours Price
- News of Interest: Belfast flag riots and the past haunting the peace
- Clinton & Holder Pressed Anew on Subpoenas of Boston College Records
- Boston College IRA tapes on agenda for incoming Secretary of State hearings
- Congressman Brian Higgins’ Letter Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder
- Flag row could impact on Boston College tapes saga
- International Sharing Of Evidence: A 2-Way Street
- United States of America: Supreme Court must protect confidentiality of researchers’ sources
- Troubles Archive Hearing Causing Political Stirrings
- Supreme Court Update: Radio Free Éireann interviews Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- US Government Does U-Turn After Amicus Briefs Lodged In Boston College Case
- Scholars Urge Supreme Court to Protect Researchers’ Pledges
- Social Science Scholars Support Supreme Court Petition
- Boston College Case Press Release On Amici Curiae Brief To The United States Supreme Court
- Brief Amicus Curiae of ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression in Support of Petitioners
- Reporters Committee asks U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the right to challenge subpoenas seeking confidential source information
- “Friends” Join Supreme Court Appeal in British Subpoena Case: 1st Ever for Irish American Coalition
- SAA Issues and Advocacy Roundtable: The Belfast Project
- Privilege and the Belfast Project
- I wonder what’s under: Chris Bray reviews Palys & Lowman ‘Lessons From the Boston College Subpoenas’
- Moloney & McIntyre: Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States
- Defending Research Confidentiality “To the Extent the Law Allows:” Lessons From the Boston College Subpoenas
- Of Interest: President Michael D Higgins and Professor John A Murphy on History
- What You Can and Cannot Do With Data: speech by Mary Muldowney, Founding Member of the Oral History Network of Ireland
- Belfast Project researchers at Boston College win Supreme Court stay
- Boston tapes won’t amount to a hill of beans in court
- Justice Breyer Grants BC Researchers Stay in IRA Recording Case
- Newstalk: Kevin Cullen on Belfast Project Supreme Court Stay
- Temporary reprieve for tapes handover
- Supreme Courts around the World: the US Supreme Court
- US high court protects N. Ireland ‘Troubles’ archive – for now
- US court blocks handover of secret IRA tapes
- Updated from Boston Globe: Researchers win a reprieve from Supreme Court in Boston College Irish Troubles interview case
- Researchers win a reprieve from Supreme Court in Boston College Irish Troubles interview case
- WBUR: U.S. Supreme Court Halts Turnover Of Secret IRA Tapes
- Supreme Court halts turnover of secret IRA tapes
- US Supreme Court halts turnover of secret IRA tapes
- British Subpoenas Blocked
- US Supreme Court Issues Stay
- FF backs call for Adams to ‘tell truth’ about past
- News of Interest: Broadcasters resist police bid to grab unbroadcast Belfast riot footage
- Legal battle ensnares Boston College’s Irish history project
- Will CBS and Sunday Telegraph Defy PSNI Demands For Dolours Price Material?
- Adams Must Decide How History Will Remember Him
- PSNI still probing Jean McConville murder
- Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand Letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- The Belfast Project and the Boston College Subpoena Case
- Police ‘laying siege to journalism’ over claim Gerry Adams ordered killing
- McConville probe police seek copies of Price interviews
- Stay granted on North interviews
- McIntyre loses IRA tapes case
- The Dolours Price Tapes: The Least Secret Secret in the History of Secrets
- Ex-IRA man ‘willing to risk jail’ to protect his sources
- Researcher says he is prepared to go to jail to protect interviewee confidentiality
- Supreme Court Blocks BC Tape Handover
- Kenny calls for Adams IRA admission
- Transcript: Ed Moloney interview on Radio Free Eireann, 29 September 2012
- Adams says IRA allegations against him ‘deeply hurtful’
- Gerry Adams says he cannot afford to sue over allegations
- Adams says bombing claims false
- Adams rejects Dolours Price claims over IRA
- Dolours Price & Jean McConville
- Kenny turns up heat on Adams
- Adams ‘hiding in Dail’ to avoid questions on Jean McConville
- Adams rejects claim he sanctioned 1973 Old Bailey bombing
- Time for Mr Adams to examine conscience
- Gerry Adams under pressure to ‘come clean’ after IRA bomber’s claims
- Former IRA member admits role in killings, says peacemaker politician should do the same
- Price claims Adams sanctioned Old Bailey bombing
- ‘Republicanism is part of our DNA’, says IRA bomber Dolours Price
- Boston College tapes: ‘writer not making big profit’
- Tapes wanted by PSNI ‘do not mention murder’
- Boston College Subpoenas Caused By Journalist’s Lies and PSNI Failings
- Price ‘did not mention Jean McConville’ in Boston College tapes
- ‘No increased threat’ to ex-IRA researcher
- Boston College project: Legal appeal over Delours Price interviews
- McConville family call for arrest of SF leader Adams
- News of Interest: The Legal Position on Amnesties and the Duty to Prosecute
- We’ve been through hell for 30 years to get justice for Mum
- Boston College Debacle: Sacrificing U.S. Brokered Northern Ireland Peace Process
- Is Ruling Regarding Confidentiality of Belfast Project Interviews Setting a Frightening Precedent?
- Irish groups seeking alliance with Boston College
- Kerry could hold key to denying Boston tapes to PSNI
- Belfast Court Issues Stay On Materials
- Audio & Transcript of Oral Arguments, First Circuit Court of Appeals, September 7, 2012
- Video: Battle Over Northern Ireland Archive
- Radio Free Eireann interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- Injunction stops PSNI taking Dolours Price Boston College tapes
- Boston College: IRA interviews should stay sealed
- ‘IRA tapes’ handover appeal granted
- Boston College project: Ruling over Dolours Price tapes
- Appeal launched against IRA tapes being handed over to police
- Secret ‘IRA tapes’ appeal to begin
- Appeals over Dolours Price interviews to start
- Boston and Belfast Appeals Made
- Belfast Project Case May Go To Supreme Court
- Unearthing the past may endanger peace process
- Boston College Subpoena Case: Request for Senate Hearings Made
- Appeal to Clinton: Stop Subpoenas For Congressional Hearing
- Holder Told: Congressional Hearing Wanted
- Boston College Researchers Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court…As Deadline for IRA Tapes Handover Nears
- US Supreme Court to hear IRA tapes case
- Boston College researchers pledge to turn to Supreme Court to protect IRA interview from British
- Boston College terror tapes case may go to US Supreme Court
- Irish Troubles researchers vow to go to US Supreme Court to protect B.C. interviews
- Boston College IRA tapes case to go to US Supreme Court
- Moloney & McIntyre Announce Their Intention to Take Case to Supreme Court
- Catching Up with Carrie Twomey…The Battle to Quash Subpoenas in Boston and Belfast
- What’s New to Boston College Subpoena News – The Latest Additions to the Site
- Warning over Boston tapes; Testimonies could be used to destabilise peace process: McGuinness
- PBS Newshour: U.S. and U.K. Entangled in Legal Battle to Release Former IRA Militants’ Stories
- News of Interest: Undereported: Troubles in Northern Ireland
- New legal bid to block release of Boston tapes
- Appellant Petition for Panel Hearing or Rehearing En Banc
- Boston College Case – Papers Filed for En Banc Hearing
- Ecuador Stands Up to Britain …while the U.S. Genuflects
- Chris Bray: The Machine Just Keeps on Running
- Appeal to Boston College to Join the Fight Against Holder Subpoena
- Rep. Pallone: U.K. Government Subpoenas Seeking Documents from Boston College’s Belfast Project Threatens Peace in Northern Ireland
- Belfast Project Case Shows the Need for First Amendment Consistency
- News of Interest: So they think it’s all over in Northern Ireland?
- News of Interest: The Scottish soldiers dogged by accusations of sectarianism
- A decision to stifle history
- Peace process could unravel over tapes fight
- A Blow to Freedoms in Reporting and Research
- Opposition to Attorney General Holder’s Subpoena of Boston College Irish Records Unites Irish Americans
- Debate over interview material could be key to Luka Rocco Magnotta murder trial
- Oral History and the Law: Boston College’s Woes
- Who owns history? The Boston College subpoenas…
- Americans’ 1st Amendment right to know trumps foreign treaty agreements
- Irish National Congress: Decision on tapes bizarre
- Court overlooked key arguments in its BC decision
- BC and the Belfast Project: A Scholar’s Privilege to Disobey
- Politicking – petty point scoring – and our bloody past
- McConville Case Still Resonates Within Northern Ireland
- Grave matters
- Transcript: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson interviewed on RTE about Boston College case
- Britain Inches Closer Toward Confidential IRA Interviews
- A Breach of Promise
- Former IRA prisoner dubious about re-opening inquiries
- Boston College Opinion Shows Holder Way to Reject UK Request
- Who Killed Jean McConville? A Battle For IRA Secrets
- Transcript: Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney updates Radio Free Eireann on Boston College case
- Ruling on BC files sets bad precedent
- Testimony of renegade Provos just won’t go away, you know
- The Brief Legal Podcast interviews Attorney Eamonn Dornan about the Boston College subpoena
- US ruling reopens old ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland
- TRANSCRIPT: RTE Prime Time looks at the controversy over the Boston College interviews
- Boston College Confidentiality – Public references to agreement
- A chilling threat to historical research
- This IRA ruling has put us on a perilous road
- BC case throws cold water on IRA, academia
- Stand Up For Real Journalism
- Grappling with a troubling memoir of Ulster’s bitter past
- Terrorist tapes may come back to haunt Adams
- BC decision should lead others to amend oral-history pacts
- Links to past under attack
- US ruling might affect peace process, Costello says
- In the Dáil: Topical Issue Debate – Boston College Belfast Project Papers
- Boston College Oral History Archive – Dealing with the Past: BBC Radio Ulster Talkback Transcript
- Law Society Gazette: IRA interviews judgment – history is the loser
- Northern Ireland conflict archives should not fall into police hands
- The Daily Beast: Boston College’s Secret Tapes Could Bring IRA Exposure and Retribution
- National Law Journal: First Circuit rejects Boston College researchers’ claims of privilege in U.K. probe of IRA
- RCFP: Federal appeals court rejects academic researchers’ reporter’s privilege defense
- Audio: US Court Rules Boston College Researchers Can’t Keep IRA Records Sealed
- What’s New to Boston College Subpoena News – The Latest Additions to the Site
- McConville family ‘pleased’ at IRA tape ruling
- NUJ Dismay over Boston Tapes Ruling
- Hillary and Holder Now Free to Stop Boston College Subpoenas
- Confidentiality Right Rejected
- Jean McConville’s family welcome IRA Boston ruling
- IRA bomber Dolours Price’s testimony must be handed to police, US court rules
- Boston tapes ‘could lift lid on IRA’
- Legal team seeks to stop PSNI getting IRA tapes
- Press Statement From Ed Moloney & Anthony McIntyre
- Morrow welcomes Boston tapes ruling
- Disclosure of IRA testimony held in Boston could stall search for truth
- US Supreme Court appeal possible in Boston College IRA case
- US court says IRA member’s secret testimony can be handed over to police
- PSNI to get Price interview
- US court rules IRA interviews can be given to PSNI
- ‘We’ll fight order to give up IRA tapes’
- US court rules Dolores Price interview must be given to PSNI
- US tapes ‘may implicate IRA chiefs’
- Boston College can’t keep IRA materials confidential
- Free speech claims tossed in N.Irish “Troubles” case
- Court: Interview with IRA car bomber for Boston College oral history project can be released
- Court: 2 men can’t stop release of IRA interview
- IRA subpoenas affirmed by 1st Circuit
- First Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling
- The Kevin Na of Government Lawyers
- Ex-Provo’s life is at risk over IRA tapes row, court to be told
- Decision on IRA interviews ‘imminent’
- Tick-tock, Your Time is Up
- Boston College Subpoenas Challenged in Belfast Courts
- Attorney General Holder and the Meaning of Contempt
- News of Interest: Omagh inquiry ‘would expose security faults’
- News of Interest: Secret Troubles memo could prompt fresh legal action
- U.S. Official Behind Boston College Subpoenas Shielded Bush Torture Team
- IRA Taped Interviews Fight: US Policy or “Warlow’s War”?
- Echoes of Erin: Irish American Unity Conference President interviewed about Boston College subpoena case
- Groups step up BC campaign
- Congressman Richard E. Neal Letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Senator Benjamin L. Cardin Letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Congressman Albio Sires Letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
- Incompetence or Indifference: Gov’t Punts on BC Appeal
- Eroding Trust: Irish historian considers significance of fight over papers at Boston College
- CNN: Secrets of the Belfast Project
- Tapes Hold N. Ireland Murder Secrets
- Campaigners fighting to keep Boston tapes in US
- Standoff turns on credibility of threats
- Eric Holder Clueless or Turning A Blind Eye?
- Boston College’s Shameful Sham Appeal
- Senator Robert P. Casey Letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Letter to State Department Director of Policy and Planning, Jake Sullivan
- Urgent Appeal for Secretary of State Clinton
- Third time the charm in BC archives battle?
- BC Files Appellate Brief in Belfast Project Case
- Guessing Games
- House of Commons Written Answers 30 April 2012: Boston College
- Department of Justice Response to Senator Lugar
- Carrie Twomey Letter to Senator Lugar, forwarded to Department of Justice and State Department
- Strong Irish Views at State Department
- Never Reveal Sources
- Congressman Mark S. Critz Letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
- Opposition to Boston College Subpoena Grows; Holder Ripped for Response
- Lugar now intervenes in BC case
- Close Enough for Government Work
- Senator Richard G. Lugar Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder
- Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder
- Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney interviewed on New York radio
- Self-Inflicted Wounds
- Response to Department of Justice Letter to Court
- Irish American Groups Write to Chairman Christopher H. Smith, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Wait, your honors!
- House of Commons Written Answers 16 April 2012: Northern Ireland: Boston College
- Getting Hillary involved is key to ending IRA tapes saga
- Inside the Boston archive
- Issue of the ‘disappeared’ in the Troubles not going away
- Mosquito Won’t Stop Buzzing in Court’s Ear
- US Attorney Letter to Court
- Courtroom battle over IRA interviews
- Congressman Tim Murphy Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Progress in Northern Ireland?
- Boston legal eagle John Foley updates us on the U.S. Court of Appeals Oral Arguments on the controversial Boston College Irish Tapes
- Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Cause and Effect – How About September?
- In Boston, journalist Moloney battles to protect sources
- What’s New to Boston College Subpoena News
- Derry writers speak at conference
- Radio Free Eireann interviews Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney After First Circuit Hearing
- Transcript: US Attorney’s Oral Argument in the First Circuit Court of Appeals
- Transcript: Eamonn Dornan’s Oral Argument in the First Circuit Court of Appeals
- Boston Appeals Court Hears Case Of IRA Interviews
- Congressman Mike Doyle Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- First Circuit hears oral argument in Boston College subpoenas case
- IRA members face ‘grave physical danger’ if recordings made for American college’s project are handed to British authorities, U.S. court hears
- Thoroughly Reframed: The First Circuit Cuts Through the Haze
- Prosecutors questioned in ‘Belfast Project’ appeal
- Congressman Steven R. Rothman Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Tough questions in UK quest for Irish archive in Boston
- Audio of Oral Arguments, First Circuit Court of Appeals
- Appeals court hears case of secret IRA tapes
- BBC Radio Evening Extra: Andy Martin reporting from Boston
- Federal appeals court hears arguments in case of BC oral history project on ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland
- Senator John Kerry Op-Ed
- Irish future shouldn’t get lost in violent past
- Senator Scott P. Brown Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- IRA tapes row back in US court
- Explosive Troubles interviews set to surface?
- Researcher faults BC over Belfast project
- Wife of ex-IRA member key force in BC tapes case
- Hot Pursuit
- The Case for Research
- Northern Ireland Police Threaten Academic Freedom
- Investigation may be a step in the right direction
- BCAAUP Writes To Leahy, BOT Asking For Investigation
- How a noble exercise became a political act
- Schumer’s concern over BC case
- Boston College IRA tapes saga: Schumer steps in
- Irish Radio Network: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson discusses Boston College Case
- ICAN: Problematic Stories: Documenting Conflict during a Peace Process
- Moloney and McIntyre thank Senator Schumer
- Boston College Faculty Call for an Investigation
- Boston College, the Belfast Project and the Academy of Betrayal: Protection of Academic Freedom Until It Becomes Inconvenient
- The People Who Ratified the US-UK MLAT Think the DOJ Is Wrong About What the Treaty Means
- Senator Charles Schumer Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Congressman Eugene O’Flaherty’s letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
- Chris Bray: An Aside
- Irish Radio Network USA St Patrick’s Day Special interview with Carrie Twomey
- St Patricks Day: Radio Free Eireann interview with Carrie Twomey
- Conflicts in Ireland are topic of talk at AOH
- O’Flaherty writes Clinton on BC case
- BC subpoenas are legally dumb and dumber
- Boston College: The Irish News & Sunday Life Revisited
- Howlers (Final)
- Howlers (Part Two)
- Howlers (Part One)
- Gov’t to Judge: This is Gonna Be a Little Harder Than We Thought
- Leaders’ BC appeal in advance of Cameron visit
- Irish America United: Statement of Coalition
- CAMERON-OBAMA Talks Must Address UK Political Fishing Expedition in Boston College Archives: Irish American Groups
- WILL OBAMA QUERY CAMERON ON IRISH PEACE?
- The Short Show: Interview with Chris Bray and Carrie Twomey
- ACLU joins fight to prevent disclosure of BC Belfast Project documents on conflict in Northern Ireland
- Court ruling could “have a chilling effect on academic research for years to come”
- Could Boston Tapes case put peace process at risk?
- Group backs secrecy on NI tapes
- Esquire: The Troubles We’ve Seen
- ACLU joins in appeal of release of Boston College interviews
- Wide Awake in America
- ACLU Files Amicus Brief in Support of Appellants Moloney & McIntyre
- 2 at BC profited from book based on Troubles tapes
- Eagles Abroad Feel No Effect From Project
- State may play big role in Boston Tapes conclusion
- Called to Account
- Boston College Confidentiality – Public references to agreement
- Transcript: Fran McNulty Interviews Boston College Spokesperson Jack Dunn and former Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- Chris Bray: Boston College Burns the Seed Corn
- ACLU plans to support BC Archivists in Brief
- DÁIL QUESTIONS addressed to the Minister for Justice and Equality (Mr. Shatter)
- BC Will Appeal Court’s Ruling, Protect Tapes
- Boston College to challenge handover of interviews
- Boston College to fight federal court order to disclose secret IRA interview tapes
- Statement by the Council of the American Sociological Association
- Senator Robert Menendez’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Boston College will fight court order releasing some Project Belfast records to British police
- Chris Bray: A Most Unwelcome Development
- Boston College: A Dramatic Climbdown Or A Sham Appeal?
- Notice of Appeal from Boston College
- 5 Minutes With a Sociologist, Jailed for Refusing to Divulge Subjects, About the Controversy at Boston College
- No moral reason why an amnesty can’t be offered
- Concerns raised over case of Boston papers
- Researchers Weigh In On Belfast Project Legal Drama
- Law and academy clash in the long shadow of the gun
- Getting Gerry Adams: Norman Baxter’s Long Crusade
- Kerry wades into BC tapes dispute
- Safeguarding research ethics must be key to our work, particularly when we aim to create external impacts on politics and society
- A 21st Century Pandora’s Box: Boston College, US Courts and News Media Stirring Embers in Northern Ireland
- Attorney General Holder and the Blind Eye
- CBS Evening News: Oral history of N. Ireland strife raises dilemma
- Chris Bray: One of These Days, Alice
- Now Crowley pens BC concerns to Clinton
- BC tapes: Letter from Congressman Joe Crowley to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Irish GOP have a go at Holder
- Chris Bray: Proof by Denial
- Haunted by the ghosts from our bloody history
- Chris Bray: Imagine a Rope, and Perceive It Around Your Wrists
- Chris Bray: The Heights of Credulity
- Admins Alert Students Of Belfast Project
- Chris Bray: Too Bad You’re Missing It
- North needs to confront past quickly, says DPP
- Kerry seeks halt to BC archive interviews probe
- Irish American Republicans Call for Obama/Holder Subpoena to be Quashed in Irish Archives – Boston College Case
- Congressman Gary Ackerman’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University
- Boston IRA Tapes in the Courts
- Boston College: Someone Learned to Read
- WBAI: Radio Free Eireann interview with Ed Moloney and Carrie Twomey
- Kerry reaches out on Northern Ireland “Troubles” records
- Obvious Lying Tends to be a Bad Public Relations Tactic
- WBUR: Boston College Caught In Dispute Over Belfast Project
- Security services making a killing from the Troubles
- John Kerry Getting Involved in UK Case Over Irish Republican Army Fighters
- A Passive Receptacle
- Boston College Researchers Drink with the IRA, and Academics Everywhere Get the Hangover
- Scarce Solutions
- Boston College archives case has long reach
- Showdown
- On Hold
- Senator John Kerry’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Boston College has undermined all researchers and journalists who rely on confidential sources
- We won’t give up terror tapes, say researchers
- Judge tosses lawsuit seeking to block subpoenas for handover of secret IRA tapes
- US judge finds no basis to stop release of IRA interviews
- Irish “Troubles” case in Boston pits researchers vs. police
- Carrie Twomey: Release Of Irish Archives Would Put My Husband’s Life In Jeopardy
- IRA archive work could endanger men’s lives
- Caught in a Tug of War
- BC legal battle to unfold before students
- Boston researchers fight against seizure of IRA interviews
- McConville death secrets in Boston archive
- Boston College defends role in fighting tapes action
- Federal judge orders Boston College to release more Irish Republican Army recordings
- Judge to BC: Turn over more materials
- Adams has ‘nothing to fear’ in Boston archives
- Congressional Action
- Ed Moloney defends sources – again
- Nom Nom Nom
- Radio Free Eireann: Interview with Anthony McIntyre and Carrie Twomey
- Irish Radio Network, USA: Interview with Carrie Twomey
- Obvious and Dangerous Lies from Boston College
- College has fought to deny access to interview materials
- BC case a show, or just foolishness?
- If trust is lost, future promises naught but troubles for research
- IRA Tapes May Determine Gerry Adam’s Political Future
- PSNI legal bid for Boston College IRA tapes ‘not way to truth’
- Boston tapes ‘give hope to victims’
- Transcript: Radio Free Eireann Interview with Carrie Twomey
- Jean McConville: one of Belfast’s stubborn ghosts
- Moloney and McIntyre Reply to O’Dowd
- BBC: Martin McGuinness ‘disturbed’ by Boston College project
- Minister’s US Handover of Peace Process Files Criticised
- Boston College says IICD documents will remain confidential for 30 years
- Irish Times: Martin claims on NI archive ‘off the wall’, says Shatter
- Times of London: Ulster needs peace. But it needs truth more
- ABC National Radio: IRA oral history murder implication – Interview with Eamonn Dornan
- Why Has Sensitive National Archive on Peace Process Been Sent to USA?
- Could the Secret Archive in Boston End Our Peace?
- Scores of Paramilitaries Interviewed – Few Know Their Names
- WNYC: The Takeaway – Boston College Defends Right to Keep IRA Interviews Secret
- Times of London: Tapes may link Adams to IRA killing
- Irish Times: Boston College Saga Shows How the State Has Failed
- And Starring Jack Dunn as Tweedle Dee
- Wall Street Journal: IRA History Project Snags U.S. School
- Transcript: RTE Radio One ‘This Week’ – Fran McNulty Interviews Anthony McIntyre
- RTE News: Belfast Project interviewer fears for his life
- Transcript: Radio Free Eireann interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- The Unalloyed Right of Government Officials to Breathtaking Stupidity and Obvious Negligence
- Seizure of files could mean we’ll never hear the truth
- Reckless Negligence: Expanding the Case Against Boston College
- Cold case team is behind US terror files court battle
- Belfast Project Statement
- Wipe terror tapes and close US archive, its authors urge
- Destroy paramilitary tapes say Boston researchers
- Fresh prosecution hope over McConville killing
- Transcript: Good Morning Ulster Interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- Transcript: BBC Radio Foyle Breakfast Programme interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- Moloney angry over Troubles tapes
- Loyalist wants Boston College tapes returned
- Dolours Price interviews received by US officials
- Judge: BC must hand Price tapes to prosecutors
- Reprieve for Oral History
- Fury as college researchers say IRA tapes have already been handed over to court
- Boston College Confidentiality – Public references to agreement
- Researcher hits out at Boston College in IRA interviews row
- Adams may be quizzed over death of McConville
- Truly the past is a foreign country, explore it with care
- Appeals court steps into BC case
- Boston College: Oral history project that sparked cross words
- Boston College misses deadline to hand over IRA tapes to judge
- Stay Order
- American wife of ex-IRA member fears retaliation
- Britain to access tapes of ex-IRA member’s interview
- Jean McConville files: D-day for Boston College
- US college agrees to give interviews with Dolours Price to prosecutors
- Audio: WBUR Radio Boston interview Ed Moloney and Jack Dunn
- Boston College: Disaster by Design or, The Family Doesn’t Shelter Orphans
- BC is ordered to turn over IRA materials
- Boston College: Time for Resignations
- Receipt for In Camera Filing, 27 December 2011
- Britain May Get Ahold of Secret IRA Interviews
- Receipt for In Camera Filing, 21 December 2011
- The Troubling Secret History of the Troubles
- Judge rules against BC, appeal possible
- College ordered to hand over IRA testimonies: Journalist Kevin Cullen
- Holder In Hot Water With Irish American Organizations
- Boston College Must Release Oral-History Records, but Court Will Review Them First
- Boost for British bid to obtain IRA tapes from US university
- Federal Judge Refuses to Quash Subpoenas Seeking Confidential Records
- Why is President Obama trying to damage the Irish peace process?
- Judge orders Boston College to hand over IRA secret tapes – Major setback in effort to protect IRA oral history interviews
- Response to Boston College decision
- “The Logical (and Unconstitutional) Conclusion of the Government’s Assertions”
- Boston College: The Inextinguishable Rule of Law
- Irish Radio Network, USA: Audio interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
- Activists Continue Efforts to Quash Belfast Subpoena
- Fight British Request for Boston College Records
- Boston College: Pushing Holder
- Boston College: The Role Of The Irish News and Sunday Life
- Irish Radio Network, USA: Audio interview with Advocacy Groups Fighting Subpoena
- Former Head of Boston College Belfast Project Reasserts That ‘Irish News’ Reports Led to Controversial Subpoenas
- Irish Americans meet Paterson in NY
- IAUC Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder
- Advocacy Groups Weigh in on Belfast Project Subpoena
- Irish News Responds to Moloney Criticism
- Sec. Clinton asked to intervene on subpoena for oral histories of IRA members
- IAUC Letter to Secretary of State on Boston College Subpoenas
- BC Archive Case Appears Politically Motivated
- Kerry Alerted to BC Case
- Double Standards at Slugger O’Toole?
- Finucane family anger at inquiry snub
- ‘A Chilling Effect on Oral History in This Country’
- News of Interest
- He could still be arrested. So is this the real reason McGuinness denies he was in the IRA after 1974?
- Court Changes
- Judge Joseph L. Tauro replaced by Judge William G. Young
- McGuinness Faces Questioning Over 10 Murders in IRA Tapes Sensation
- Justice Department Does the Dirty Work
- Groups Join BC Fray
- Boston College: Where the Fourth Amendment Goes to Die
- Boston Strangled
- It is victims of the IRA who need to be hugged
- Boston College should stand its ground
- Boston College IRA tapes: Researchers seek separate review
- New York Times: Historic Headlines – key events and their connections to today
- Irish groups angry over British subpoenas for Boston College IRA interview records
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd F. Braunstein replaced by Assistant U.S. Attorney John T.McNeil
- A Fight For the Record Books
- News Media
- Fighting for Confidentiality
- History Remembered by the People Who Were There
- Taking Aim at the DOJ
- Journalists seek to intervene in IRA oral history case
- PSNI move for IRA tapes should be ruled illegal: researchers
- Sinn Fein response to Boston Globe; Letters to the Editor
- Right of Reply: Gerry Adams was never target of Boston College Oral History project
- Adams witch-hunt casts dark cloud over peace process
- BC tapes: PSNI accused of Adams witch hunt
- Boston College tapes request ‘politically motivated’
- US prosecutors subpoena college for IRA interviews
- The big dig
- Boston College played major role in witch hunt against Gerry Adams
- Get Gerry Adams focus of Feds new subpoena of Boston College records
- Fishing in BC’s Archives
- Troubling request
- Fishing Harder
- Boston College probe a threat to oral history research
- Brehons Back BC
- The Boston College Oral History Project and ‘Voices From the Grave’
- Judge Richard G. Stearns replaced by Judge Joseph L. Tauro
- BC Subpoena News on Twitter
- Oral History, Unprotected
- The Whole Story Behind the Boston College Subpoenas
- Boston College (Cont.): Fixing a Broken Frame
- Boston College (Cont.): AUSA Todd Braunstein, the Infamous Irish Politician
- DOJ on Boston College: Academic Freedom a Legally Meaningless “Quasi-Privilege”
- Misfeasance, Rounding the Corner Toward Malfeasance
- Boston College seeks to quash British subpoenas seeking IRA oral histories
- Misfeasance
- Tale of the Tape Pits Law Against History
- Troubles
- Foot in the Mouth
- Moral Decency Requires That I Betray You
- Notes from a Balinese Cockfight, Officer
- Chris Bray – Cliopatria
- This Case Merits Close Inspection
- May 25, 2011: Boston College’s IRA archives get subpoenaed
- Site Index
- Boston College urged to remain silent
- Boston College urged to remain silent
- Secret Archive of Ulster Troubles Faces Subpoena
- Article Links
- PSNI study claim over Adams and McConville
- Adams should be arrested
- ‘I’m suing Adams for the truth — it is not about money’
- ‘PSNI must launch probe into Adams’
- I’LL SUE ADAMS; Daughter of Disappeared Jean to take case after claims SF chief ordered mum’s murder
- Daughter of McConville to sue Adams over murder
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Background Information – Confidentiality, Dolours Price, Jean McConville, Threats to Researcher, IICD, and ICLVR
Court Documents – Filings, Rulings and Orders
Respondent
US Government
Intervenors
Congress
Dáil
Chris Bray
Parliament
- Background Information
- Threats to Researcher and Research Participants
- Brehon Law Society Letter
- Columbia Oral History Policy, 2000
- Irish News Interview with Dolours Price
- Sunday Life
- Boston College Publications
- Senate Executive Report 109-19
- Final Report of the IICD
- Concerns Expressed by the ICLVR
- Brendan Hughes: A Life in Themes
- Jean McConville Investigation
- Voices from the Grave – Documentary
- IAUC Letter to Eric Holder
- Boston College Confidentiality – Public references to agreement
- Preface to Voices From the Grave
- Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement Debate
- CNN: Secrets of the Belfast Project
- The Troubles in Northern Ireland: 2012
- Court Documents
- Motion to Quash
- Government Opposition
- Motion to File Reply
- Motion to Quash New Subpoena
- Reply
- Government’s Opposition to Motion to Quash New Subpoenas and Motion to Compel
- Motion for Leave to Intervene
- Intervenors’ Complaint for Declaratory Judgement, Writ of Mandamus and Injunctive Relief
- Motion for Enlargement of Time
- Notice of Successor Commissioner
- Government’s Opposition to Motion For Leave to Intervene
- Motion of Intervenors to File Reply
- Government’s Opposition to Motion of Putative Intervenors to File Reply Memorandum
- Intervenors Reply to Government’s Opposition to Motion for Leave to Intervene
- Judge William G. Young’s Ruling
- Court Orders, 22 December 2011
- Court Orders, 27 December 2011
- Motion for Stay Pending Appeal to the First Circuit
- Notice of Appeal
- Complaint for Judicial Review
- Receipt for In Camera Filing, 21 December 2011
- Receipt for In Camera Filing, 27 December 2011
- Motion to Dismiss by defendants John McNeil and Eric Holder
- Findings and Order
- Government’s Motion for Partial Reconsideration of Findings and Order Dated January 20, 2012
- Response of Trustees of Boston College to Government’s Motion for Partial Reconsideration
- Plaintiffs’ Memorandum in Opposition to Government’s Motion to Dismiss
- Order of Dismissal
- Transcript of Motion Hearing (24 Jan 2012)
- Plaintiff – Appellant’s Brief
- Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction
- Appendix to Appellant’s Brief
- Motion of American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts for Extension of Time to File Proposed Amicus Brief
- ACLU Motion for Leave to File Amicus Brief
- Amicus Curiae Brief of ACLU in Support of Appellants Moloney & McIntyre
- Brief for the United States
- Reply to US Brief
- Motion of Boston College for 10 Day Enlargement of Time to File Its Opening Brief
- US Attorney Letter to Court
- Audio and Transcript of Oral Arguments, First Circuit Court of Appeals
- Response to Department of Justice Letter to Court
- Order Staying 1-20-2012 Order
- BRIEF OF APPELLANT TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
- Government’s Order for Extending the Time to July 6, 2012 Within Which It Must File Its Responsive Brief
- McIntyre Application for Judicial Review – Belfast
- McIntyre Affidavit – Belfast
- Government’s Motion for Order for Extending the Time to July 13, 2012 Within Which It Must File Its Responsive Brief
- First Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling
- Brief of the United States (in response to Boston College)
- Reply Brief of the Appellant Trustees of Boston College
- Appellant Petition for Panel Hearing or Rehearing En Banc
- Motion of ACLUM for Leave to File Amicus Brief in Support of Appellants’ Petition for Rehearing or Rehearing En Banc
- Amicus Curiae Brief of ACLUM in Support of Appellants’ Petition for Rehearing or Rehearing En Banc
- Motion To Stay Mandate Pending The Filing Of A Petition For Writ Of Certiorari
- Conference
- October 1 2012 Supreme Court Order
- Government Opposition to Supreme Court Stay
- Reply Brief in Support of Emergency Application for Stay Pending Filing and Disposition of Petition for Writ of Certiorari
- October 17 2012 Supreme Court Order: Stay Granted
- Supreme Court Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
- Irish American Coalition Supreme Court Amicus Brief
- Brief of Social Science Scholars as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioners
- Brief Amicus Curiae of ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression in Support of Petitioners
- Brief Amicus Curiae of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Support of Petitioners
- Boston College moves that the Court vacate the District Court’s January 20, 2012, Findings and Order and dismiss appeal as moot
- Government’s Opposition to Boston College’s Motion to Dismiss
- Reply of Boston College to Government’s Response to Motion to Dismiss Appeal as Moot
- Boston College Supreme Court case: Brief for the United States in Opposition
- Motion to Defer Consideration of Petition for Writ of Certiorari
- First Circuit Court of Appeal Ruling
- GOVERNMENT’S REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION OF THE COURT’S OPINION (Petition for Panel Rehearing)
- Supplemental MOTION to Seal by United States of America
- McIntyre Subpoena
- Judgement: Application to Exclude the Boston Tapes Evidence
- The Belfast Project, Boston College, and a Sealed Subpoena
- Respondent
- US Government
- Exhibit 1: Sunday Life
- Exhibit 2: Irish News
- Exhibit 3: 1973 Scotsman Report
- Exhibit 4: New York Times
- Exhibit 5: Boston Globe
- Exhibit 6: Boston Globe (2)
- Exhibit 7: Interpol
- Exhibit 8: The Good Friday Agreement
- Exhibit 9: Gerry McGeough
- Exhibit 10: O’Neill letter to Moloney
- Exhibit 11: Sample Agreements
- Intervenors
- Exhibit A, Affidavit of Ed Moloney
- Exhibit B, Affidavit of Anthony McIntyre
- Exhibit C, US-UK MLAT
- Exhibit D, CRS Report on Extradition Treaty
- Exhibit E, Congressional Record
- Exhibit F, European Arrest Warrant Procedures
- Exhibit A: Decision
- Exhibit B: CRS Report
- Exhibit C: Order of December 27, 2011
- Exhibit D: Affidavit of Ed Moloney
- Exhibit E: Affidavit of Anthony McIntyre
- Exhibit F: Affidavit of Carrie Twomey
- Exhibit G: European Arrest Warrant Procedures
- Exhibit H: Congressional Record
- Exhibit B, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Affidavit of Jacqueline Bradley
- Exhibit C to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction: Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains website screenshot; Hunt for Northern Ireland Disappeared Could be Disrupted, Guardian, July 4, 2011; PSNI Could Hinder Legal Searches, BBC, July 4, 2011
- Congress
- Congressman Gary Ackerman’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Senator John Kerry’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Congressman Joe Crowley’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Senator Robert Menendez’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Congressman Eugene O’Flaherty’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Senator Charles Schumer Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Senator Scott Brown’s letter to Attorney General Holder and Secretary of State Clinton
- Congressman Bill Pascrell’s Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Congressman Steven Rothman’s Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Congressman Mike Doyle’s Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Senator Frank Lautenberg’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Congressman Murphy’s letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Senator Lugar’s letter to Attorney General Holder
- Congressman Critz’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
- Department of Justice Response to Senator Lugar
- Senator Casey’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Congressman Sires’ letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
- Senator Cardin’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Congressman Neal’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Congressman Pallone’s Letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
- Senator Gillibrand’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
- Congressman Brian Higgins’ Letter Secretary to of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder
- Congressman Robert Brady’s Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder
- Senator Menendez Letter to Secretary Kerry (April, 2013)
- Senator Menendez letter to Secretary Kerry (June 2013)
- Dáil
- Chris Bray’s Commentary
- Parliament
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