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Columbia Oral History Policy, 2000

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Preface to Voices From the Grave

Voices From the Grave – Documentary

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Brendan Hughes: A Life in Themes

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Concerns Expressed by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains

IAUC Letter to Eric Holder

Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement Debate

CNN: Secrets of the Belfast Project

The Troubles in Northern Ireland: 2012

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Recent Audio & Transcripts

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— "Boston College is contractually committed to sequestering the taped transcriptions unless otherwise given a full release, in writing, by the interviewees, or until their demise."

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WGBH Boston Public Radio interviews Kevin Cullen: The simmering tensions in Belfast over an oral history project at Boston College (starts 1.28.00)

WGBH Boston Public Radio interviews Anthony McIntyre and Carrie Twomey: Boston College, Carmen Ortiz, Ireland and Obama

RTE's Marian Finucane interviews Anthony McIntyre: Former Provisional IRA member and historian Anthony McIntyre talks about his involvement with the Boston College tapes project.

Alan Meban interviews Anthony McIntyre: Belfast Project “an invitation to engage in deep moral reflection on the consequences of war”

Boston College: Petition

BC AAUP petition asking Boston College administration to account for itself (archive copy)

Hearing

Moloney & McIntyre - First Circuit Court of Appeals HearingApril 4, 2012

Click here for Audio & Transcript of oral arguments

United States Attorney General Eric Holder:

Petition for withdrawal of the subpoena he issued on behalf of the British Government. (archive copy)

Hearing

Boston College Appeal Against Second Subpoena: First Circuit Court of AppealsSeptember 7, 2012

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The value of the Oral Tradition is its democracy; it doesn't give to an intellectual elite the exclusive right to shape a communal memory and the collective memory. It makes into a common wealth the story of our shared lives. It's something that we share in common – and it's like a collection plate into which we can all put something: our stories, our myths and the ease with which we are able to, in some way, cross boundaries.
- Cleophus Thomas, Jr.

First Circuit Court of Appeals

May, 2013

“… we must forcefully conclude that preserving the judicial power to supervise the enforcement of subpoenas in the context of the present case, guarantees the preservation of a balance of powers… In substance, we rule that the enforcement of subpoenas is an inherent judicial function which, by virtue of the doctrine of separation of powers, cannot be constitutionally divested from the courts of the United States. Nothing in the text of the US-UK MLAT, or its legislative history, has been cited by the government to lead us to conclude that the courts of the United States have been divested of an inherent judicial role that is basic to our function as judges.”

“… the district court acted within its discretion in ordering their production, it abused its discretion in ordering the production of a significant number of interviews that only contain information that is in fact irrelevant to the subject matter of the subpoena.”

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