Links to all press reports relating to the Boston College subpoena fight are collected here.
Articles are in chronological order, with the latest news at the end of the list.
2011
MAY – JUNE – JULY – AUGUST – SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER – NOVEMBER – DECEMBER
2012
JANUARY – FEBRUARY – MARCH – APRIL – MAY – JUNE
Secret Archive of Ulster Troubles Faces Subpoena
New York Times
Authorities move to access ‘oral history’ tapes
RTE Radio 1
Audio interview with New York Times reporter Jim Dwyer
Boston College NI archive materials subpoenaed
Slugger O’Toole blog
British subpoena IRA records from Boston College oral archive
Irish Voice
Subpoena sounds alarm for academic historians
eats shoots n’leaves blog
Northern Ireland police seek access to Troubles tapes
BBC
US prosecutors seek access to IRA tapes
The Telegraph
Boston College Tapes Documenting The Irish Troubles Subpoenaed
Download Radio Boston report: http://audio.wbur.org/storage/2011/05/radioboston_0513_bc-tapes.mp3
Boston College urged to remain silent
Irish Times
US archive told to hand over confidential Troubles tapes
The Independent
Federal Prosecutors Subpoena Irish Oral Histories Housed at Boston College
“The Ticker” at the Chronicle of Higher Education
Feds subpoena interviews of IRA members from Boston College oral history project
Boston Globe
British demand Boston College hand over 40-year-old interviews of IRA members ‘admitting murder’
Daily Mail
BC faces dilemma over Irish archive
Boston Globe
May 25, 2011: Boston College’s IRA archives get subpoenaed
WGBH
U.S. government’s attempt to access college archive raises questions
Washington Post
Boston College Fights Subpoena for Confidential Interviews on Irish Violence
Chronicle of Higher Education
Boston College seeks to quash British subpoenas seeking IRA oral histories
Boston Globe
BC asks for Irish project secrecy
Boston Globe
College Fights Subpoena of Interviews Tied to I.R.A.
New York Times
College: Academics also deserve protection from subpoenas
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
BC looks to block Troubles tapes subpoena
Irish Emigrant
A Fight To Keep Northern Ireland Interviews Secret
National Public Radio
Foot in The Mouth
Danny Morrison
Bangers Babble
The Pensive Quill (Anthony McIntyre)
Tale of the Tape Pits Law Against History
Sunday Times
Boston College fights legal bid over IRA interviews
BBC
Boston College embroiled in Northern Ireland politics and murder
Spero Forum
BC archives case heading for U.S. Supreme Court?
Irish Echo
Boston College (Cont.): AUSA Todd Braunstein [and] the Infamous Irish Politician
Cliopatria
Fears over attempts to find Disappeared
UTV
Hunt for Northern Ireland disappeared could be disrupted, warn investigators
The Guardian
Oral History, Unprotected
Inside Higher Education
The Whole Story Behind the Boston College Subpoenas
Chronicle of Higher Education
Boston College Archives Subpoena is tip of an iceberg
Out of the Jungle blog
BC pressed to give recordings to UK
Boston Globe
The Boston College Oral History Project and ‘Voices from the Grave’
An Phoblacht/Republican News
BC should abide by subpoena, provide info in murder case
Boston Globe
‘Old RUC’ fear
Andersonstown News
Loose talk set the police on the trail of the Provos
Belfast Telegraph
Riverdalian in the thick of global privacy fight
Riverdale Press
Brehons back BC
Irish Echo
Boston College probe a threat to oral history research
Irish Echo
‘Globe’ disagrees with University’s stance, feels BC should abide by subpoena
Boston College Heights
Brehons, Globe, take different tack on BC archive
Irish Echo
Troubling Request
Boston Globe
Fishing for Troubles in BC’s Archives
Boston Globe
Boston College played major role in witch hunt against Gerry Adams
Irish Voice
Get Gerry Adams focus of Feds new subpoena of Boston College records
Irish Voice
The big dig
Irish Echo
US prosecutors subpoena college for IRA interviews
Irish Times
BC tapes: PSNI accused of Adams witch hunt
Irish Emigrant
Adams witch-hunt casts dark cloud over peace process
A whiff of irony in the BC archives case
Irish Echo
Right of Reply: Gerry Adams was never target of Boston College Oral History project
Irish Voice
Sinn Fein Response to Boston Globe (Letters to the Editor)
Boston Globe
“He is merely behaving as an echo chamber for Sinn Fein exasperation…”
Slugger O’Toole
Two involved in BC project on Troubles wade into legal fight
Boston Globe
PSNI move for IRA tapes should be ruled illegal: researchers
Belfast Telegraph
Journalists seek to intervene in IRA oral history case
Irish Times
Standing At Silly Point
The Pensive Quill (Anthony McIntyre)
Educating Rita
The Pensive Quill (Anthony McIntyre)
The Making of a Tout
DannyMorrison.com
Fighting for Confidentiality
Inside Higher Ed
Dear Danny
The Pensive Quill (Anthony McIntyre)
A Fight for the Record Books
The Heights
Irish Groups Angry Over British Subpoenas For Boston College IRA Interview Records
Irish Voice
Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold: Gerry Adams and the Boston College Subpoenas
The Broken Elbow (Ed Moloney)
New York Times: Historic Headlines – key events and their connections to today
The New York Times
Boston College IRA tapes: Researchers seek separate review
The Irish Emigrant
Why the Boston College Oral History Project Should be Discontinued
Irish Voice
Boston College Should Stand Its Ground
Irish Echo
A Hope that the Truth Wins Out
The Heights
Boston Strangled
Private Eye
http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/wbai_110917_130046rfeireann.mp3 (file available until 10 December 2011)
Download WBAI’s Radio Free Eireann show about the Boston College Oral History Archive
Groups Join BC Fray
Irish Echo
Justice Department Does the Dirty Work
Socialist Worker
McGuinness Faces Questioning Over 10 Murders in IRA Tapes Sensation
Evening Herald
‘A Chilling Effect on Oral History in This Country’
The Wild Geese
Double Standards at Slugger O’Toole?
The Broken Elbow
Kerry Alerted to BC Case
Irish Echo
BC Archive Case Appears Politically Motivated
Irish Echo
Sec. Clinton asked to intervene on subpoena for oral histories of IRA members
The Hill
Irish News Responds to Moloney Criticism
The Wild Geese
Advocacy Groups Weigh In On Belfast Project Subpoena
The Heights
Irish Americans Meet Paterson in NY
Irish Echo
Former Head of Boston College Belfast Project Reasserts That ‘Irish News’ Reports Led to Controversial Subpoenas
The Wild Geese
Irish Radio Network, USA: Audio interview with Advocacy Groups Fighting Subpoena
Irish Radio Network
Boston College: The Role Of The Irish News and Sunday Life
The Broken Elbow
Boston College: Pushing Holder
Cliopatria
Fight British Request for Boston College Records
Irish American News
Activists Continue Efforts to Quash Belfast Subpoena
The Heights
Irish Radio Network, USA: Audio interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
Irish Radio Network
Boston College: The Inextinguishable Rule of Law
Cliopatria
“The Logical (and Unconstitutional) Conclusion of the Government’s Assertions”
Cliopatria
Judge orders Boston College to hand over IRA secret tapes – Major setback in effort to protect IRA oral history interviews
IrishCentral.com
Response to Boston College decision
Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre
Why is President Obama trying to damage the Irish peace process?
IrishCentral.com
Federal Judge Refuses to Quash Subpoenas Seeking Confidential Records
Inside Higher Ed
Boost for British bid to obtain IRA tapes from US university
Belfast Telegraph
Boston College Must Release Oral-History Records, but Court Will Review Them First
Chronicle of Higher Education
Holder In Hot Water With Irish American Organizations
AOH & IAUC
College ordered to hand over IRA testimonies: Journalist Kevin Cullen
RTE
Judge rules against BC, appeal possible
Irish Echo
The Troubling Secret History of the Troubles
Esquire
Britain May Get Ahold of Secret IRA Interviews
Courthouse News
Boston College: Time for Resignations
Chris Bray
BC is ordered to turn over IRA materials
Boston Globe
Boston College: Disaster by Design or, The Family Doesn’t Shelter Orphans
Chris Bray
Audio: WBUR Radio Boston interview Ed Moloney and Jack Dunn
WBUR Radio Boston
US college agrees to give interviews with Dolours Price to prosecutors
Irish Times
Jean McConville files: D-day for Boston College
Belfast Telegraph
Britain to access tapes of ex-IRA member’s interview
Irish Examiner
American wife of ex-IRA member fears retaliation
Boston Globe
Boston College misses deadline to hand over IRA tapes to judge
Belfast Telegraph
Boston College: Oral history project that sparked cross words
Belfast Telegraph
Appeals court steps into BC case
Boston Globe
Truly the past is a foreign country, explore it with care
Belfast Telegraph
Adams may be quizzed over death of McConville
Sunday Independent
Researcher hits out at Boston College in IRA interviews row
Irish News
Fury as college researchers say IRA tapes have already been handed over to court
Belfast Telegraph
Reprieve for Oral History
Inside Higher Education
Judge: BC must hand Price tapes to prosecutors
Irish Emigrant
Dolours Price interviews received by US officials
BBC News
Loyalist wants Boston College tapes returned
Belfast Telegraph
Moloney angry over Troubles tapes
UTV
Transcript: BBC Radio Foyle Breakfast Programme interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
BBC Radio Foyle
Transcript: Good Morning Ulster Interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
BBC Radio Ulster
Fresh prosecution hope over McConville killing
Newsletter
Destroy paramilitary tapes say Boston researchers
Irish News
Wipe terror tapes and close US archive, its authors urge
Belfast Telegraph
Belfast Project Statement
Moloney, McArthur, McIntyre
Cold case team is behind US terror files court battle
Belfast Telegraph
Reckless Negligence: Expanding the Case Against Boston College
Chris Bray
Seizure of files could mean we’ll never hear the truth
Belfast Telegraph
The Unalloyed Right of Government Officials to Breathtaking Stupidity and Obvious Negligence
Chris Bray
Transcript: Radio Free Eireann interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
WBAI, Radio Free Eireann
Transcript: RTE Radio One ‘This Week’ – Fran McNulty Interviews Anthony McIntyre
RTE Radio
IRA History Project Snags U.S. School
Wall Street Journal
Belfast Project interviewer fears for his life
RTE News
And Starring Jack Dunn as Tweedle Dee
Chris Bray
Boston College Saga Shows How the State Has Failed
Irish Times
Tapes may link Adams to IRA killing
Times of London
Boston College Defends Right to Keep IRA Interviews Secret
WNYC
Scores of Paramilitaries Interviewed – Few Know Their Names
The Newsletter
Could the Secret Archive in Boston End Our Peace?
The Newsletter
Why Has Sensitive National Archive on Peace Process Been Sent to USA?
Fianna Fáil
ABC National Radio: IRA oral history murder implication – Interview with Eamonn Dornan
ABC National Radio
Times of London: Ulster needs peace. But it needs truth more
Times of London
Irish Times: Martin claims on NI archive ‘off the wall’, says Shatter
Irish Times
Boston College says IICD documents will remain confidential for 30 years
BBC News
Minister’s US Handover of Peace Process Files Criticised
Irish News
BBC: Martin McGuinness ‘disturbed’ by Boston College project
BBC
Moloney and McIntyre Reply to O’Dowd
Jean McConville: one of Belfast’s stubborn ghosts
Daily Telegraph
Transcript: Radio Free Eireann Interview with Carrie Twomey
Radio Free Eireann
PSNI legal bid for Boston College IRA tapes ‘not way to truth‘
BBC News
Boston tapes ‘give hope to victims’
News Letter
IRA Tapes May Determine Gerry Adam’s Political Future
Huffington Post/Associated Press
If trust is lost, future promises naught but troubles for research
Times Higher Education
BC case a show, or just foolishness?
Irish Echo
College has fought to deny access to interview materials
Irish Times
Obvious and Dangerous Lies from Boston College
Chris Bray
Irish Radio Network, USA: Interview with Carrie Twomey
Irish Radio Network
Radio Free Eireann: Interview with Anthony McIntyre and Carrie Twomey
Radio Free Eireann
Nom Nom Nom
Chris Bray
Adams has ‘nothing to fear’ in Boston archives
RTE
Judge to BC: Turn over more materials
Boston Globe
Federal judge orders Boston College to release more Irish Republican Army recordings
Masslive.com
Boston College defends role in fighting tapes action
BBC News Northern Ireland
McConville death secrets in Boston archive
Newsletter
Boston researchers fight against seizure of IRA interviews
The Guardian
BC legal battle to unfold before students
Boston Globe
Caught in a Tug of War
Boston Globe
IRA archive work could endanger men’s lives
RTE News
Carrie Twomey: Release Of Irish Archives Would Put My Husband’s Life In Jeopardy
WGBH
Irish “Troubles” case in Boston pits researchers vs. police
Reuters
US judge finds no basis to stop release of IRA interviews
Irish Times
Judge tosses lawsuit seeking to block subpoenas for handover of secret IRA tapes
Washington Post
We won’t give up terror tapes, say researchers
Newsletter
Boston College has undermined all researchers and journalists who rely on confidential sources
Belfast Telegraph
Senator John Kerry’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
On Hold
Irish Echo
Showdown
Irish Echo
Boston College archives case has long reach
Irish Echo
Scarce Solutions
Chris Bray
Boston College Researchers Drink with the IRA, and Academics Everywhere Get the Hangover
Forbes
A Passive Receptacle
Chris Bray
John Kerry Getting Involved in UK Case Over Irish Republican Army Fighters
The Atlantic
WBUR: Boston College Caught In Dispute Over Belfast Project
WBUR
Kerry reaches out on Northern Ireland “Troubles” records
Reuters
WBAI: Radio Free Eireann interview with Ed Moloney and Carrie Twomey
Radio Free Eireann
Boston IRA Tapes in the Courts
ActiveHistory.ca
Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University
Social Science Space
Congressman Gary Ackerman’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
Irish American Republicans Call for Obama/Holder Subpoena to be Quashed in Irish Archives – Boston College Case
Irish American Republicans
Kerry seeks halt to BC archive interviews probe
Boston Irish Reporter
North needs to confront past quickly, says DPP
Irish Times
Chris Bray: Too Bad You’re Missing It
Chris Bray
Admins Alert Students Of Belfast Project
BC Heights
Chris Bray: The Heights of Credulity
Chris Bray
Chris Bray: Imagine a Rope, and Perceive It Around Your Wrists
Chris Bray
Haunted by the ghosts from our bloody history
Belfast Telegraph
Chris Bray: Proof by Denial
Chris Bray
Irish GOP have a go at Holder
Irish Echo
BC tapes: Letter from Congressman Joe Crowley to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Now Crowley pens BC concerns to Clinton
Irish Echo
Chris Bray: One of These Days, Alice
Chris Bray
CBS Evening News: Oral history of N. Ireland strife raises dilemma
CBS Evening News
Attorney General Holder and the Blind Eye
Irish American News
A 21st Century Pandora’s Box: Boston College, US Courts and News Media Stirring Embers in Northern Ireland
sabrams.com
Safeguarding research ethics must be key to our work, particularly when we aim to create external impacts on politics and society
London School of Economics and Political Science
Kerry wades into BC tapes dispute
Irish Emigrant
Getting Gerry Adams: Norman Baxter’s Long Crusade
Counterpunch
Law and academy clash in the long shadow of the gun
Times Higher Education
Researchers Weigh In On Belfast Project Legal Drama
BC Heights
Concerns raised over case of Boston papers
Irish Times
No moral reason why an amnesty can’t be offered
Irish News
5 Minutes With a Sociologist, Jailed for Refusing to Divulge Subjects, About the Controversy at Boston College
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Notice of Appeal from Boston College
Boston College: A Dramatic Climbdown Or A Sham Appeal?
The Broken Elbow
Chris Bray: A Most Unwelcome Development
Chris Bray
Boston College will fight court order releasing some Project Belfast records to British police
Boston Globe
Senator Robert Menendez’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Statement by the Council of the American Sociological Association
ASA
Boston College to fight federal court order to disclose secret IRA interview tapes
Washington Post
Boston College to challenge handover of interviews
Irish Times
BC Will Appeal Court’s Ruling, Protect Tapes
BC Heights
DÁIL QUESTIONS addressed to the Minister for Justice and Equality (Mr. Shatter)
ACLU plans to support BC Archivists in Brief
Boston Irish Reporter
Chris Bray: Boston College Burns the Seed Corn
Chris Bray
Boston College Confidentiality – Public references to agreement
Called to Account
Chris Bray
State may play big role in Boston Tapes conclusion
Belfast Telegraph
Eagles Abroad Feel No Effect From Project
BC Heights
2 at BC profited from book based on Troubles tapes
Boston Globe
ACLU Files Amicus Brief in Support of Appellants Moloney & McIntyre
ACLU
Wide Awake in America
Chris Bray
ACLU joins in appeal of release of Boston College interviews
Boston Globe
Esquire: The Troubles We’ve Seen
Esquire
Group backs secrecy on NI tapes
Irish Times
Could Boston Tapes case put peace process at risk?
Belfast Telegraph
Court ruling could “have a chilling effect on academic research for years to come”
ACLU
The Short Show: Interview with Chris Bray and Carrie Twomey
John Smart Radio Show
WILL OBAMA QUERY CAMERON ON IRISH PEACE?
IAUC
CAMERON-OBAMA Talks Must Address UK Political Fishing Expedition in Boston College Archives: Irish American Groups
IAUC, AOH, Brehon Society
Irish America United: Statement of Coalition
Leaders’ BC appeal in advance of Cameron visit
Irish Echo
Gov’t to Judge: This is Gonna Be a Little Harder Than We Thought
Chris Bray
Howlers (Part One)
Chris Bray
Howlers (Part Two)
Chris Bray
Howlers (Final)
Chris Bray
Boston College: The Irish News & Sunday Life Revisited
The Broken Elbow
BC subpoenas are legally dumb and dumber
Irish Echo
O’Flaherty writes Clinton on BC case
Irish Echo
Conflicts in Ireland are topic of talk at AOH
Northeast Times Star
St Patricks Day: Radio Free Eireann interview with Carrie Twomey
Radio Free Eireann
Irish Radio Network USA St Patrick’s Day Special interview with Carrie Twomey
Irish Radio Network
Chris Bray: An Aside
Chris Bray
Congressman Eugene O’Flaherty’s letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
The People Who Ratified the US-UK MLAT Think the DOJ Is Wrong About What the Treaty Means
Chris Bray
Boston College, the Belfast Project and the Academy of Betrayal: Protection of Academic Freedom Until It Becomes Inconvenient
Huffington Post
Boston College Faculty Call for an Investigation
Chris Bray
Moloney and McIntyre thank Senator Schumer
ICAN: Problematic Stories: Documenting Conflict during a Peace Process
Performing the Peace
Irish Radio Network: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson discusses Boston College Case
Irish Radio Network
Boston College IRA tapes saga: Schumer steps in
Irish Emigrant
Schumer’s concern over BC case
Irish Echo
How a noble exercise became a political act
Irish Times
BCAAUP Writes To Leahy, BOT Asking For Investigation
Investigation may be a step in the right direction
Northern Ireland Police Threaten Academic Freedom
Wife of ex-IRA member key force in BC tapes case
Researcher faults BC over Belfast project
Explosive Troubles interviews set to surface?
IRA tapes row back in US court
Senator Scott P. Brown Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Irish future shouldn’t get lost in violent past
BBC Radio Evening Extra: Andy Martin reporting from Boston
Appeals court hears case of secret IRA tapes
Audio of Oral Arguments, First Circuit Court of Appeals
Tough questions in UK quest for Irish archive in Boston
Prosecutors questioned in ‘Belfast Project’ appeal
Thoroughly Reframed: The First Circuit Cuts Through the Haze
First Circuit hears oral argument in Boston College subpoenas case
Congressman Mike Doyle Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Boston Appeals Court Hears Case Of IRA Interviews
Transcript: Eamonn Dornan’s Oral Argument in the First Circuit Court of Appeals
Transcript: US Attorney’s Oral Argument in the First Circuit Court of Appeals
Radio Free Eireann interviews Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney After First Circuit Hearing
In Boston, journalist Moloney battles to protect sources
Cause and Effect – How About September?
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Congressman Tim Murphy Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Courtroom battle over IRA interviews
Mosquito Won’t Stop Buzzing in Court’s Ear
Issue of the ‘disappeared’ in the Troubles not going away
Getting Hillary involved is key to ending IRA tapes saga
House of Commons Written Answers 16 April 2012: Northern Ireland: Boston College
Response to Department of Justice Letter to Court
Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney interviewed on New York radio
Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder
Senator Richard G. Lugar Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder
Close Enough for Government Work
Lugar now intervenes in BC case
Opposition to Boston College Subpoena Grows; Holder Ripped for Response
Congressman Mark S. Critz Letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
Strong Irish Views at State Department
Carrie Twomey Letter to Senator Lugar, forwarded to Department of Justice and State Department
Department of Justice Response to Senator Lugar
House of Commons Written Answers 30 April 2012: Boston College
To be added
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