Anthony McIntyre

Secrets From Belfast: a definitive guide to the Troubles (troubled?) oral history project

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on January 28, 2014, 7:00 pm | Readers 297

Beth McMurtrie has published an extensive and well-researched article for The Chronicle of Higher Education. It examines how the Belfast Project oral history project at Boston College was established and how it has fallen apart in recent years following the PSNI’s request for access to the archive (two months after the British government had “given the college highly sensitive papers related to the disarmament process, to be kept locked away for 30 years”). What sets Beth’s article apart from much …

Belfast Project (Boston College tapes): “an invitation to people to engage in deep moral reflection on the consequences of war and political violence”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on February 4, 2013, 8:30 am | Readers 195

The topic of the Belfast Project – an oral history of republican and loyalist paramilitaries that is archived in the Burns Library at Boston College – is one that Slugger O’Toole posters have been tracking for some time. Taking a step back from the latest developments to look at the project as a whole, and exploring beyond the normal 2-3 minute media soundbite, I spoke to Anthony McIntyre (who conducted many of the republican interviews) about the original purpose of …

Death of Dolours Price – opens up possibility that her taped oral history will be published (or not)

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on January 24, 2013, 2:34 pm | Readers 433

Dolours Price – sister, mother, bomber, prisoner and a thorn in Gerry Adams’ side – died in her Malahide home on Wednesday night. The Guardian’s Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald writes: Price was involved in a car bombing at the Old Bailey in 1973, which injured more than 200 people and may have led to one person’s death of heart failure. The ex-IRA prisoner, who went on hunger strike with her sister Marian in the 1970s and was subjected to forcefeeding …

Judge rules oral history tape release would not “materially increase the risk to his life or that of his family”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on October 2, 2012, 1:12 pm | Readers 67

This morning Mr Justice Treacy rejected Anthony McIntyre’s application for a judicial review in the latest attempt to prevent the PSNI from accessing republican interview transcripts from the Boston College oral history project. It is thought that the PSNI team investigating the 1972 murder of Jean McConville are behind the UK government request to get hold of the tapes of interviews with Dolours Price which are currently held in the US. Two weeks ago, McIltyre’s fellow researcher Ed Moloney (who …

“I believe the time is apposite to reveal what the interviewees did not disclose”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 14, 2012, 11:39 pm | Readers 88

Eating dinner in the Burns Library of Boston College last night, I glanced around at the old manuscripts sitting on the shelves, knowing that the now infamous oral history tapes from the “Belfast Project” must be stored within a room or two of where were sitting. On Friday morning, researchers Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre were back in Belfast High Court seeking a judicial review of the “decision of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to request the United States …