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filed a supporting brief. However, the PSNI ultimately won the resulting court battle, with a United States appeals court decision stating, "The choice to investigate criminal activity belongs to the government and is not subject to veto by academic researchers."
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were later subpoenaed by the PSNI and used to prosecute him for murder and other crimes in 2016. Rea's trial was delayed repeatedly due to his failing health and the coronavirus pandemic. He died in 2023, before the trial could be concluded.
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in Massachusetts, U.S. The project began in 2000 and the last interviews were concluded in 2006. The interviews were intended to be released after the participants' deaths and serve as a resource for future historians.
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with soliciting McConville's murder. Bell was acquitted—the court found the tapes to be unreliable and they were not admitted as evidence. These tapes are also thought to have contributed to
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Graffiti in Belfast criticizing the Belfast Project. It reads: "In-former Republicans/Boston College
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Out of the Ashes: An Oral History of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement
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Review of Voices From The Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland, by E. Moloney
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were used (after their deaths) as the basis for Moloney's 2010 book
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Winston 'Winkie' Rea charged with murders of two Catholic workmen
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How an Oral History Project Got the Head of Sinn Fein Arrested
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The Belfast Project, Boston College, and a Sealed Subpoena
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Boston tapes: Q&A on secret Troubles confessions
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Index


Touts
oral history
the Troubles
Boston College
Ed Moloney
Anthony McIntyre
Irish republicans
Brendan Hughes
Dolours Price
Ivor Bell
Richard O'Rawe
loyalists
David Ervine
murder of Jean McConville
Police Service of Northern Ireland
ACLU
Ivor Bell
Gerry Adams
Winston Churchill Rea





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